Vance Havner Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vance Havner
Vance Havner Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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.
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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.
It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
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.
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."
God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.