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There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
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Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
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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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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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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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If we don't come apart we will come apart.
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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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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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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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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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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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Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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