Accepting Quote by Vance Havner

“Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.”

Vance Havner

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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

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