A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. — 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
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. — 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
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
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
Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time,… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek… — 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… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and… — 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
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put… — 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
If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of… — 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 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
Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an… — 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
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
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe. — 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
