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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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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?
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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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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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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
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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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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
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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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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
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