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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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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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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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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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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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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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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
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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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People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
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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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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
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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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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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