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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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If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
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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.
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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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Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
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Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
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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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The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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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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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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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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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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Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.
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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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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
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