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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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Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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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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You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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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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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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When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!
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What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
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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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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
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One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
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