Vance Havner Quotes

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• Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of…
• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance…
• If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
• It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so…
• The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
• I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions…
• If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
• Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
• Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has…
• Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
• A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus…
• If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making…
• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to…
• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
• It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time…
• If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he…
• Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
• The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

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