Famous Quotes / Vance Havner
17 Quotations by Vance Havner
- 1. Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It look ...
- 2. Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.
- 3. I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in ...
- 4. I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of ...
- 5. If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and ...
- 6. If we don't come apart, we will come apart.
- 7. If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
- 8. It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest ...
- 9. It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end ...
- 10. Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave -- with both ends kicked out.
- 11. Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with ...
- 12. The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament, normal it would seem to pe ...
- 13. The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
- 14. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - We must step up ...
- 15. Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
- 16. When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, "Pre ...
- 17. You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.