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There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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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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A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
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Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
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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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Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
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It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
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The alternative to discipline is disaster
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I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
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No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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God's Word is its own best argument.
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God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
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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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If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
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One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
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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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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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We need to take down our Do not disturb signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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