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You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
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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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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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