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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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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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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 revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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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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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
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We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
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Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition
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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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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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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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Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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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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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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