Knows Quotes by Vance Havner

8 Knows quotes by Vance Havner

Vance Havner’s work blends visual art with narrative, and these eight short reflections on knowing capture his ability to convey insight through both words and images.

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If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

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Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the…

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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are…

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We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

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Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know…

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You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more…

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I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy…

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A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may…

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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

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It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you…

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There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a…

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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

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God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach…

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The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.'…

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Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.

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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

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A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

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Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

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We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we…

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To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

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