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We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.

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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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Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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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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Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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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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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism we died with Christ and rose to new life.
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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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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 you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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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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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
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