Vance Havner Quotes - Page 5

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• A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

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  Would Be, Crowds, Littles

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

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  Fighting, Church Today, Devil

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• The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.

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  Christian, Party, Sunday

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• I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.

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  Husband, People, Sin

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• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

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  Devil, Preacher, Preparing

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• It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.

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  Jesus, Want, Needed

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• 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

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• When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

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  Christian, Fall, People

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• What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.

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  Christian, Faces, Lord

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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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• One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

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  Christian, Heaven, Hours

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

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  Leader, Blind, Bland

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• 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

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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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• Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

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  Fire, Preacher, Ought

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• We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

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  People, Grace, Christ

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

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

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  Know How, Knows

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• The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.

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  Real, Coffee, Hypocrite

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• Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

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  Missionary, Captains, Boat

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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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• Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

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  Idols, Idol Worship, Spirit

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• The alternative to discipline is disaster

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  Christian, Discipline, Alternatives

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• The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

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  Christian, Sound, Doctrine

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

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  Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

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