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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.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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He who waits on God loses no time.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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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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When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
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People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
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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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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.
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It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
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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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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
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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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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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