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
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more… — 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
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors,… — 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
Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all -… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He… — 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
A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher… — 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
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
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
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
To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are… — 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
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
When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and… — 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
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. — 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
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know… — 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
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not… — 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
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they… — 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
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
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable. — 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
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
