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Church Quotes by Vance Havner
- The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
- Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
- 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…
- The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
- If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.
- 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.
- 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…
- A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much…
- Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
- Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no…
- One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as…
- When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.…
- Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
- I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.
- A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
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- See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. — Charles Barkley
- In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians. — Karl Barth