Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't! — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe. — Vance Havner Copy Share
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you… — Vance Havner Copy Share
There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a… — Vance Havner Copy Share
The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God. — Vance Havner Copy Share
God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach… — Vance Havner Copy Share
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.'… — Vance Havner Copy Share
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. — Vance Havner Copy Share
I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day. — Vance Havner Copy Share
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. — Vance Havner Copy Share
A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd. — Vance Havner Copy Share
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it. — Vance Havner Copy Share
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons. — Vance Havner Copy Share
We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we… — Vance Havner Copy Share
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. — Vance Havner Copy Share
