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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
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Nearer
Home
Today
Ever

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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
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There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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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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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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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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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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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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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
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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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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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