Vance Havner Quotes
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Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.
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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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Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
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No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
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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.
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Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
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The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.
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I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.
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Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
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Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
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We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience
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Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
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Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
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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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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.'
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If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
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Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
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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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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.
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It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
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The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
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