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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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Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
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