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If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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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 middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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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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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
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