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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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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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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 detour is always rougher than the main road
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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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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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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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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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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
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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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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience
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Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
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Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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