Vance Havner
Vance Havner
christian bouquets mud
A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
christian dark thinking
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.
prayer mean want
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
christian eye blind-spots
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
christian average today
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
christian optimistic misty
It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.
christian simple vines
We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience
devil preacher preparing
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
people ruts graves
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
christian fall people
When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!
ambition self rose
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.
men sin trouble
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
christian heaven hours
One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.
christian light fire
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.