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Christian Quotes by Vance Havner

99 Christian quotes by Vance Havner

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A soldier marching on a rugged path illustrates how being a victorious Christian needs discipline and perseverance. Havner’s quotes describe living like Jesus as a grand adventure that asks for total loyalty, not just social approval. They also remind us that sometimes doing less, trusting God, brings greater strength than trying to produce more.

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Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

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A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

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

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One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

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

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The alternative to discipline is disaster

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Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

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

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Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.

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I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our…

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We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch…

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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

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

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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

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

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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and…

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We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too…

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We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in…

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When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have…

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God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will…

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The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on…

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A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a…

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One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or…

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Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction…

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I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it…

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The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real…

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Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting…

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I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well…

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

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If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

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It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

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The detour is always rougher than the main road

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No life is great that does not point to Christ.

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

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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.

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A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

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When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

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The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

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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…

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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you…

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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach…

The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.'…

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

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.

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

Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we…

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.