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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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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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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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You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.
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God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is good enough or strong enough. He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
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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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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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The detour is always rougher than the main road
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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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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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
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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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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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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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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
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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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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
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