Vance Havner Quotes - Page 4

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• A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

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  Christian, Mother, Morning

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• 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.

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  Christian, Encouragement, Inspiration

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• We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

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  Suffering

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• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

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  Ambition, Self, Rose

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• Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

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  Christian, Modern, Lord

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• People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.

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  Dark, Thinking, People

  Vance Havner (1986). “The best of Vance Havner”

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• Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

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  Christian, Winning, Self

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• We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

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  Christian, Humility, Judging

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• If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees.

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  Christian, School, Knees

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

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

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  Comfort, Easy, Prelude

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

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• If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.

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  World, Ifs

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

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• Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

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  Christian, Jesus, Differences

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• Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.

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  Ideas, Needs, Unchristian

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• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

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  Zoos, Civilization, Looks

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• We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

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  Moving, Evil, Midst

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• If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

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  Prayer, Mean, Want

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

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• I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

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  Christian, Fall, Men

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• Simply wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.

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  Waiting, Protected

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

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  Church Service, Boredom, Twelve

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

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  Feet, Doe, Schedules

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

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• More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

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  Christian, Book, Christian Inspirational

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• Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith.

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  Waiting, Cases

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