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We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
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 thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
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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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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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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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He who waits on God loses no time.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
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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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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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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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A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.
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