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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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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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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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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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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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