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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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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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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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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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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
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If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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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 you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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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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