Vance Havner Quotes - Page 8

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• Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Peace With God

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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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  Christian, Apathy, Needs

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• If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

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  Laziness, Leisure, Ifs

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• I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

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  Mistake, Moses, Crosses

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• Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

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  Mean, Humility, Thinking

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

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• It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

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  Jesus, Egypt, Want

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

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• When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.

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  Christian, Hands, Trying

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• The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

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  Church, World, Firsts

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• God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

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  Doe, Would Be, Sometimes

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, p.9, Solid Christian Books

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• If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!

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  Blow, Roots, Long

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• Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

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  Wise, Men, Giving

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• Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Home

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• We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.

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  Christian, Standards, Quantity

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• Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.

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  Christian, Blessing, Taste

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

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• There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.

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  Comfort, Needs, Ministry

  Vance Havner (1948). “"That I May Know Him,": A Personal Testimony”

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• When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

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  Christian, Pride, Upset

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• Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

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  Christian, Life Is Like, Wheat

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• I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.

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  Christian, Selfish, Desire

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• When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.

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  Christian, Jesus, Light

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• It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

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  Christian, Optimistic, Misty

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• Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

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  Heart, Men, Hands

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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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  Giving, Meditation, Today

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• If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

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  Fire, Cities, Gold

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

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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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  Christian, Care, Aspirin

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• Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

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  Christian, Men, Obscurity

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