Vance Havner Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fighting, Church

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

• Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

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  Christian, Church, Lasts

• The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

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  Prayer, Church, Thermometers

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

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  Sunday, Games, Church

• When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

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  Country, Jesus, Past

• If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

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  Christian, Church, March

• One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

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  Christian, Two, Church Today

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

• A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

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  Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

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

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  Church, Fellowship, Members

• The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

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  Fighting, Church Today, Devil

• The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

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  Church, Lasts, Seven

• I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

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  Order, Alcohol, Church

• 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.

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  Time, Jesus, Men

• Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.

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  People, Church, Ruts

• The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

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  People, Church, Abnormal

• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

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  Church Service, Boredom, Twelve

• A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

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  Christian, Men, Sight

• Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.

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  Believe, Church, Members

• Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Eye, Blind Spots

• Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Encouragement, Inspiration

• Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

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  Jesus, Men, Giving

  Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

• You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

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  Christian, Practice, Suffering

• Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.

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  Christian, People, Church

• Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Home

• The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.

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  Church, World, Firsts

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