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No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
Vance Havner
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Vance Havner
Age: 77 †
Born: 1886
Born: February 16
Died: 1963
Died: May 2
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
Vance Havner
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
Vance Havner
We are so prone to expect to become good Christians by some sudden experience that lifts us all at once to higher ground without the gradual climb. We forget that we are to grow in grace and that normal growth is not a matter of fits and starts.
Vance Havner
It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
Vance Havner
You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
Vance Havner
If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!
Vance Havner
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
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
Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
Vance Havner
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
Vance Havner
Satan is not fighting churches he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
Vance Havner
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
Vance Havner
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
Vance Havner
Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Vance Havner
What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!
Vance Havner
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
Vance Havner
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Vance Havner
There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.
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
Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay, and the Word of God humbles or hardens the human heart.
Vance Havner
