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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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New Jersey
Nearer
Home
Today
Ever

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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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We need to take down our Do not disturb signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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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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No life is great that does not point to Christ.
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Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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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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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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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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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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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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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
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You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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