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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.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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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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Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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