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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Plainfield
New Jersey
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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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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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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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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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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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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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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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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.
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Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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