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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
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Jesus
Christian
Christ
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Falling

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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
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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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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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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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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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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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You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
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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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Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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