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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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To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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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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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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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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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
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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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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
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God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.
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