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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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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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Cleanse
Ministry
Salt
Sugar
Truly
Taste
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Earth

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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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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
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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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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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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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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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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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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
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The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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