Vance Havner
Vance Havner
christian giving-up blessed
Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.
christian jesus falling-in-love
A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.
kings heart dust
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.
fathers-day dad home
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
christian sober please
A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
christian winning self
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."
time jesus men
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.
zoos civilization inmates
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.
loyalty jesus husband
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
devil preacher preparing
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
needs preaching firecracker
We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
divine-order self giving
Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
today waste eternity
Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
prayer church thermometers
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.