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“Worry, like a rocking chair, will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.” - 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
“The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.” - Vance Havner
“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.” - Vance Havner
“The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.” - Vance Havner
“God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!” - Vance Havner
“Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.” - Vance Havner
“A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child and the hide of a rhinoceros. His biggest problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.” - Vance Havner
“I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.” - Vance Havner
“The task of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” - Vance Havner
“Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'” - Vance Havner
“If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees! Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is the proper use of knowledge.” - Vance Havner
“Most church members live so far below the standard; you'd have to backslide to be in fellowship. We are so subnormal that if we were to become normal, people would think we were abnormal.” - Vance Havner
“Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.” - Vance Havner
“The devil will let a man prepare a sermon if that will keep him from preparing himself.” - Vance Havner
“The alcoholic commits suicide on the installment plan.” - Vance Havner
“I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It's the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.” - Vance Havner
“Taking it easy is often the prelude to backsliding. Comfort precedes collapse.” - Vance Havner
“Church members too often expect service and never think of giving it.” - Vance Havner
“We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.” - Vance Havner
“The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.” - Vance Havner
“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.” - 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.” - Vance Havner
“Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.” - Vance Havner
“We are not bearing our crosses every time we have a headache; an aspirin tablet will take care of that. What is meant is the trouble we would not have if we were not Christians.” - Vance Havner
“Many churches are like an ailing lung with only a few cells doing all the breathing. The real life of a church is in a few faithful people who keep it from being an animated corpse.” - Vance Havner
“The greatest friend of truth is time. Error is always in a hurry, but God's man can afford to await the vindication of time. And if he is not vindicated in his own lifetime, eternity will settle the score.” - Vance Havner
“Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.” - Vance Havner
“Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.” - Vance Havner
“Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.” - Vance Havner
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