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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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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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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
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Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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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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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 cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, Make yourself at home.
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Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
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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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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
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There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
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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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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . Not I, but Christ.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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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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