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The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

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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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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
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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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We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
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To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
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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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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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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 fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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