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Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

Vance Havner

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.
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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
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A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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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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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
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People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
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Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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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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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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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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The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
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The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.
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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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A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
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