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Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

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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Divine
Order
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Nothing
Self
Giving
Counts
Substance

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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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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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