Vance Havner Quotes

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it. We are plainly told in the Scriptures that in the last days men will not endure sound doctrine and will depart from the faith and heap to themselves teachers to tickle their ears. We live in an epidemic of this itch, and popular preachers have developed “ear-tickling” into a fine art.

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  Christian, Teacher, Art

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• 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.

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  Christian, Fighting, Church

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

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• If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

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  Christian, Godly, Heaven

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• 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

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• It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.

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  Christian, Messages, Acceptable

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• God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.

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  Strong, Heart, Talent

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• The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

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  Christian, Tragedy, Saint

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• People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.

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  Christian, Eye, People

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.

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  Men, Brave, Today

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• Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.

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  Christian, Wise, Stress

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• At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

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  Christian, Eagles, America

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• Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

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  Christian, Together, Sticks

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• I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

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  Christian, New York, Mean

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• If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

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  Home, Son, Bed

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• God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

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  Christian, Practice, Judging

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• The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

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  Christian, Poor, Middle

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• Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

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  Real, World, Way

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

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• What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.

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  Religious, Believe

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• When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

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  Christian, Dirty, Sheep

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• If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

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  Christian, Fall, Ifs

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

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• We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

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  Christian, Art, Fighting

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• The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.

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  Christian, Real, Smart

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• A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.

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  Children, Heart, Should Have

  Vance Havner (1988). “The Best of Vance Havner”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.

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  Blessed, Men, Faithful

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• Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.

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  Destiny, Worry, Destination

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