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God's Word is its own best argument.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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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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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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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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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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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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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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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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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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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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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
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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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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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