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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Literary Critic
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Plainfield
New Jersey
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Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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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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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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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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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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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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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
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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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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
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When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
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The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
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