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God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.Vance Havner
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.Vance Havner
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The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.Vance Havner
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A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.Vance Havner
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Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.Vance Havner
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If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.Vance Havner
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.Vance Havner
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.Vance Havner