Quotes from Vance Havner
God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.
- Vance Havner
Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
- Vance Havner
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
- Vance Havner
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
- 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
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs.
- 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
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
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
- Vance Havner
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
- Vance Havner
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
- Vance Havner
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
- Vance Havner