Quotes from Vance Havner
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
- Vance Havner
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
- Vance Havner
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
- Vance Havner
The devil is not fighting religion. Hes 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.
- Vance Havner
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.
- Vance Havner
If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.
- Vance Havner
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
- Vance Havner
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
- Vance Havner
Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.
- Vance Havner
No life is great that does not point to Christ.
- Vance Havner
It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
- Vance Havner
We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
- Vance Havner