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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
Nearer
Home
Today
Ever

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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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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
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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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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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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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There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.
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