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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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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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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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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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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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If we don't come apart we will come apart.
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