Vance Havner Quotes

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

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

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.

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

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

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.

Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.

We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

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

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.

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.

There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.

If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.

If you can't pray as you want to pray as you can. God knows what you mean.