Religion Quotes by Vance Havner

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

— Vance Havner

We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.

— Vance Havner

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

— Vance Havner

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.

— Vance Havner

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

— Vance Havner

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

— Vance Havner

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

— Vance Havner

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

— Vance Havner

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it…

— Vance Havner

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not…

— Vance Havner

A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem…

— Vance Havner

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.

— Vance Havner

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

— Vance Havner

“A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end…

— Vance Havner

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that…

— Vance Havner

Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement…

— Vance Havner

When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have…

— Vance Havner

Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction…

— Vance Havner

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

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

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

— Vance Havner

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

— Vance Havner

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

— Vance Havner

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

— Vance Havner

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

— Vance Havner

Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

— Vance Havner

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

— Vance Havner

The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

— Vance Havner

A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

— Vance Havner

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

— Vance Havner

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

— Vance Havner

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

— Vance Havner

Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.

— Vance Havner

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

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those…

— Vance Havner

If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

— Vance Havner

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

Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many…

— Vance Havner

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

— Vance Havner

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him…

— Vance Havner