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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
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Plainfield
New Jersey
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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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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
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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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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
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Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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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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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
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