Vance Havner
Vance Havner
easily head people says stop talking time useful
People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
christian efficiency sufficiency
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
blessed men faithful
The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.
christian real smart
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.
religious believe
What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.
christian america eagles
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
idols idol-worship spirit
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
christian fighting church
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
christian garden tree
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.
christian real singing
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
christian dirty white
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
christian encouragement inspiration
Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.
christian hate followers
The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
christian party sunday
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.