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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Church
Jesus
Christian
Christ
Fall
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Revival
Falling

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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 need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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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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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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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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It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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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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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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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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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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