I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary 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
God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus… — 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
People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its… — 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 see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't! — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later. — 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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
