Vance Havner
Vance Havner
today waste eternity
Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.
faithful satan tricks
Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.
obsolete word-of-god absolutes
The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.
argument
God's Word is its own best argument.
ideas needs unchristian
Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
christian today way
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
wise men giving
Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
needs preaching firecracker
We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.
jesus men champion
Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
normal saint christianity
Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.
heart speech buckets
What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
needs bitter revival
Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
christian life-is-like wheat
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.
church firsts steps
The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.