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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 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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I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, Make yourself at home.
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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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Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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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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Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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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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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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