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Religion Quotes by Vance Havner

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Vance Havner points out that Christianity can be an argument, a performance, or a personal experience, depending on how it’s lived. He says a missionary’s main drive should be love for Christ, not just a desire to help souls. He also warns that many sermons stay on the surface, missing deep conviction.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real…

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

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

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Some ministers preach from notes and some don't. They have argued about it for centuries. Let every man be fully persuaded in…

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The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that…

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.