Quotes from Vance Havner
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.
- Vance Havner
I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
- Vance Havner
I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
- Vance Havner
It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.
- Vance Havner
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
- Vance Havner
Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
- Vance Havner
It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
- Vance Havner
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
- Vance Havner
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
- Vance Havner
When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
- Vance Havner
The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
- Vance Havner
Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.
- Vance Havner