Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
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
Church
Commandment
Christian
Suffers
Today
Commandments
Really
Volume
Christians
Learned
Practice
Obeyed
Suffering
Volumes
More quotes by Vance Havner
What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
Vance Havner
Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Vance Havner
Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.
Vance Havner
The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
Vance Havner
The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
Vance Havner
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
I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.
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
If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
Vance Havner
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
Vance Havner
We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.
Vance Havner
Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
Vance Havner
Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.
Vance Havner
He who waits on God loses no time.
Vance Havner
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
Vance Havner
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
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
It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.
Vance Havner
God's Word is its own best argument.
Vance Havner
No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.
Vance Havner
