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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen 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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New Jersey
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
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We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
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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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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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We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.
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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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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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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
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An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
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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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We need to take down our Do not disturb signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
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