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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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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
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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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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and 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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We need to take down our Do not disturb signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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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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A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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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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