Vance Havner quotes

Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. (Vance Havner)
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home. View quote
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. View quote
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Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out. View quote
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. View quote
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. View quote
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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there. View quote
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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. View quote
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. View quote
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. View quote
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing. (Vance Havner)
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum. View quote
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. View quote
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If we don't come apart we will come apart. View quote
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I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. View quote
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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.'' View quote
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