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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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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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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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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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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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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
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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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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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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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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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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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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
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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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