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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is good enough or strong enough. He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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Jesus is all we have he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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