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Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

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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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Men
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Sin

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Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . Not I, but 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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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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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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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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There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
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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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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
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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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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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