Quotes from Vance Havner
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."
- Vance Havner
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
- Vance Havner
The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
- Vance Havner
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.
- Vance Havner
We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
- Vance Havner
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
- Vance Havner
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.
- Vance Havner
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
- Vance Havner
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
- Vance Havner
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
- Vance Havner
What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
- Vance Havner
Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
- Vance Havner