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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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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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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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