Vance Havner Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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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 to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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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 for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
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What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
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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!
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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.
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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 by the Spirit of God.
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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.
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Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
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There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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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.
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
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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.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
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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.