The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God! — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint. — 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
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
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
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our… — 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
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians. — 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
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. — 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
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
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will… — 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
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
One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or… — 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
