Quote

Most of the notable turn out to be the not-able. God's greatest truths still belong to babes.

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
Greatest
Turns
Christian
Babes
Stills
Notable
Still
Babe
Able
Truths
Belong
Turn

More quotes by 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
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
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.
Vance Havner
Image
Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
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
God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.
Vance Havner
Image
The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
Vance Havner
Image
People get so used to the dark that they think it is growing brighter.
Vance Havner
Image
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
Vance Havner
Image
A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.
Vance Havner
Image
He who waits on God loses no time.
Vance Havner
Image
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner
Image
There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
Vance Havner
Image
We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
Vance Havner
Image
There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!
Vance Havner
Image
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
Vance Havner
Image
Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.
Vance Havner
Image
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?'
Vance Havner
Image
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.
Vance Havner