Backsliding Quote by Vance Havner Download Open image “Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.” — Vance Havner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backsliding Collapse Comfort Easy Prelude Taking It Easy
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.'… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
However advanced a man may be in piety or age; he is still in danger of falling. — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
The deadly monotony of Christian country life where there are no beggars to feed, no drunkards to credit, which are among the moral duties… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The Christian life is never static. One must either grow in grace, or there will be backsliding and deterioration. — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help.… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
