Vance Havner
Vance Havner
christian efficiency sufficiency
Our efficiency without God's sufficiency is only a deficiency.
christian wise stress
Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.
christian fighting church
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.
christian messages available
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.
christian america eagles
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
blessed men faithful
The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be.
salvation helmet nightcap
Salvation is a helmet, not a nightcap.
children heart should-have
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.
christian real smart
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
soul missionary christ
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
suffering
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
comfort easy prelude
Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.
mind earth sugar
We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
mind earth sugar
We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.