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God 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…
- 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…
- 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!
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited…
- God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
- When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood…
- God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be…
- Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
- Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
- 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…
- We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.
- You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
- Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
- God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere,…
- What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
- Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign…
- A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
- Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi