Quotes from Vance Havner
I believe in the Church and in loyalty to a local church. I am not in favour of that view of the invisible church that makes one invisible at church on Sunday morning.
- Vance Havner
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
- 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
It used to be called the Lord's Day, now it is the weekend and if we group all holidays on weekends the devil will have scored another move against Sunday worship.
- Vance Havner
There are two omnipotences with Him: 'With God all things are possible": "All things are possible to him that believeth.
- Vance Havner
Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.
- Vance Havner
I don't believe God is going to fill anybody with the Holy Spirit until the purpose of their heart is to glorify Jesus and to glorify God.
- Vance Havner
those who are desperate enough to know Him, seek Him, and obey Him will find themselves enjoying a richer and fuller life in Christ.
- Vance Havner
A church may have the bones of organization and sound theology. It may have the body of a large membership. But, if the breath of the Holy Spirit is not on it and in it, then it is only Sardis, having a name to be alive but dead.
- Vance Havner
there's where faith comes in, receive it just like you did for salvation, according to God's word, according to God's will, according to your need, and according to your faith. God will answer any prayer that's according to those four.
- Vance Havner
A Christian is not a depository of the truth; he's a dispenser of the truth.
- Vance Havner
We must be careful not to be so scared of getting out on a limb that we never get up the tree.
- Vance Havner