Quotes from Vance Havner
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.
- Vance Havner
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
- Vance Havner
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
- Vance Havner
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
- Vance Havner
Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
- Vance Havner
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.
- Vance Havner
He who waits on God loses no time.
- Vance Havner
One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
- Vance Havner
The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
- Vance Havner
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.
- Vance Havner
Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.
- Vance Havner
God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
- Vance Havner