Quote

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

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
National
Decaying
Shall
Vulture
Christian
Eagle
Change
Eagles
America
Morally
Symbol
Symbols
Rate

More quotes by Vance Havner

Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
Vance Havner
Image
Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.
Vance Havner
Image
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
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.
Vance Havner
Image
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
Vance Havner
Image
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
Vance Havner
Image
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
Vance Havner
Image
We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.
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
We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
Vance Havner
Image
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
Vance Havner
Image
We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
Vance Havner
Image
People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
Vance Havner
Image
If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
Vance Havner