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From Quotes by Vance Havner
- It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so…
- The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
- I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was…
- When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood…
- At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
- 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…
- 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…
- If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an…
- 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."
- 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…
- 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…
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