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Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.

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
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Nearer
Home
Today
Ever

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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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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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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
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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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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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What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
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It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
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If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
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If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
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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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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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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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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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