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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
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Salvation
Nightcap

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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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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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