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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Jesus is all we have he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
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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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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
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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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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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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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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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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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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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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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