Vance Havner Quotes - Page 7

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

God's Word is its own best argument.

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

One cannot help the evil thoughts that come, but it is the thoughts we cultivate that make the difference between good or evil. We don't have to open the door to the devil and say, "Make yourself at home."

To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

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 closet is what he is, no more, no less.

We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.

I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

If we don't come apart; we will come apart.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.