224 Quotes by Vance Havner

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.

We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.

If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.