Quote

The detour is always rougher than the main road

Vance Havner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Always
Rougher
Detour
Detours
Main
Road
Christian

More quotes by Vance Havner

Image
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
Vance Havner
Image
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!
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
Vance Havner
Image
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
Vance Havner
Image
It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
Vance Havner
Image
Jesus is all we have he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!
Vance Havner
Image
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
Vance Havner
Image
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
Vance Havner
Image
God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, Children, be like your parents. Jesus said, Parents, be like your children.
Vance Havner
Image
Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.
Vance Havner
Image
Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.
Vance Havner
Image
There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
Vance Havner
Image
If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
Vance Havner
Image
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
Vance Havner
Image
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
Vance Havner