Quotes of Vance Havner - somelinesforyou

“ God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. ”

- 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

“ A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity. ”

- 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave — with both ends kicked out. ”

- Vance Havner

“ The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. ”

- Vance Havner

“ Faith doesn't wait until it understands; in that case it wouldn't be faith. ”

- Vance Havner

“ It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull. ”

- Vance Havner

“ The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament, normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. ”

- Vance Havner

“ Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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.". ”

- Vance Havner

“ I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. ”

- 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. ”

- Vance Havner

“ Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself. ”

- Vance Havner

“ 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Vance Havner

“ The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament, normal it would seem to people to be abnormal. ”

- Vance Havner

“ If we don't come apart, we will come apart. ”

- 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
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