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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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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
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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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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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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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If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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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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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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