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• We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

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  Christian, Art, Fighting

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• Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
  The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.

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  Heart, Ice, Clay

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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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  Destiny, Worry, Destination

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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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  Son, Bigger And Better, Laziness

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• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

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  Adversity, Medicine, People

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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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  Christian, Moving, Criticism

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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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  Church, Lasts, Seven

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• We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

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  Christian, Light, Fire

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.

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  Christian, Efficiency, Deficiency

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• When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

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  Christian, Men, Giants

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• If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Creation

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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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  Christian, Real, Smart

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• No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.

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  Christian, Long, Lasts

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• The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

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  Blessed, Men, Faithful

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• Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

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  Sheep, Lord, Disciple

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• A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

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  Children, Heart, Should Have

  Vance Havner (1988). “The Best of Vance Havner”, Baker Publishing Group

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• Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

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  Popularity, Prophet, Persecution

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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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  Sunday, Games, Church

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• Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

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  Jesus, Men, Giving

  Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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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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  Loyalty, Jesus, Husband

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• Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.

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  People, Vision, Venture

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• There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!

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  Book, Two, Devil

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• The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.

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  Christian, Men, Mind

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

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  Country, Jesus, Past

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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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  Christian, People, Church

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