A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem… — 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
If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is… — 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
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
The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. — 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
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
