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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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