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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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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
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Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.
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It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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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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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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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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Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
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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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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
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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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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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