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Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
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If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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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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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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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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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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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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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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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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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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