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
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal. — 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
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today. — 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
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
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
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 suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse,… — 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
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act… — 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
There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make… — 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
Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement… — 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
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock. — 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
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 gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate. — 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
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
We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“It is better to wake up five hundred Christians than to convert five hundred sinners, for if five hundred Christians really wake… — 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 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
