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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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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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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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There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
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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 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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Jesus is all we have he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
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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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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
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There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
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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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