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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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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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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, Make yourself at home.
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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
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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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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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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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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?
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