Vance Havner Quotes - Page 5

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

No life is great that does not point to Christ.

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

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 of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

The alternative to discipline is disaster

Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

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 of dollars a year to spread.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

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 Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

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 transgressions.

One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.