Vance Havner Quotes

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

God's Word is its own best argument.

People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.

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

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

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

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.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

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!

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

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.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

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.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

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 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.

Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

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.

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.

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.

No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.

Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

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

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.

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