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Christian Quotes by Vance Havner
- Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of…
- 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…
- 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…
- We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine.…
- The alternative to discipline is disaster
- We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
- If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
- We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask…
- If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
- Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though…
- Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
- In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
- The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer…
- Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by…
- The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power…
- Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
- One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
- I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was…
- The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
- A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked…
- People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear…
- It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but…
- More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
- If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
- Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
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