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The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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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 would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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