224 Quotes by Vance Havner

Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.

The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.

Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

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.

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.

There are two omnipotences with Him: ‘With God all things are possible”: “All things are possible to him that believeth.