Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
Vance Havner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
Clergyman
Literary Critic
Literary Historian
Plainfield
New Jersey
Long
Praying
Nation
Playing
Takes
Nations
Lasts
Last
Christian
Stops
More quotes by Vance Havner
There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
Vance Havner
Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
Vance Havner
We've learned how to lengthen life, but we don't know how to deepen it.
Vance Havner
Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.
Vance Havner
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
Vance Havner
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
A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
Vance Havner
Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.
Vance Havner
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
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
Vance Havner
The alternative to discipline is disaster
Vance Havner
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
Vance Havner
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
Vance Havner
An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.
Vance Havner
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
If we don't come apart we will come apart.
Vance Havner
Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
Vance Havner
The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?
Vance Havner
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
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
