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
Practice
Obeyed
Suffering
Volumes
Church
Commandment
Christian
Suffers
Today
Commandments
Really
Volume
Christians
Learned
More quotes by Vance Havner
When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.
Vance Havner
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
Vance Havner
Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.
Vance Havner
Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.
Vance Havner
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
Vance Havner
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
Vance Havner
When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.
Vance Havner
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
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
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.
Vance Havner
God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.
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
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
Vance Havner
I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
Vance Havner
Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
Vance Havner
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
Vance Havner
The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.
Vance Havner
No amount of facts in his head can compensate for the lack of fire on his lips.
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
