Vance Havner Quotes - Page 4

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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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  Suffering

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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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  Christian, Winning, Self

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• We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

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  Christian, Humility, Judging

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• Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

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  Christian, Real, Singing

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• If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

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  Christian, School, Knees

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

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• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

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  Ambition, Self, Rose

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• People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.

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  Dark, Thinking, People

  Vance Havner (1986). “The best of Vance Havner”

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• Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

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  Comfort, Easy, Prelude

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

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• There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

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  Lord, Assignments

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

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• If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.

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  World, Ifs

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

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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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  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

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  Ideas, Needs, Unchristian

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• You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.

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  Believe, Don't Believe, Ifs

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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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  Zoos, Civilization, Looks

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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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  People, Church, Abnormal

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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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  Christian, Men, Sight

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• Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

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  Church, Fellowship, Members

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• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

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  Church Service, Boredom, Twelve

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• Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

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  Feet, Doe, Schedules

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

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• More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

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  Christian, Book, Christian Inspirational

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• If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

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  Prayer, Mean, Want

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

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• Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.

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  Christian, Hatred, Sin

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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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  Christian, Garden, Tree

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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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  Honesty, Hypocrite, Hollywood

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• No life is great that does not point to Christ.

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  Christian, Doe, Life Is Great

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