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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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New Jersey
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There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.
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There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
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Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
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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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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
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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 you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
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I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
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Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
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Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
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When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
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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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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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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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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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A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.
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I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
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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.
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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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