Vance Havner Quotes

• 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.

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

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  Tags in Boredom, Twelve, Dull, Bore

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

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  Tags in Sermon, Preacher, Will, Devil

• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs.

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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.

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  Tags in Sin, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Tired

• Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave – with both ends kicked out.

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  Tags in Rut, People

• It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

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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.

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  Tags in Parents

• Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

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  Tags in Action

• You haven’t lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.

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  Tags in Divide

• 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.

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  Tags in Sandwich, Bed, Gospel

Vance Havner (11)

Birth:	1901
Death:	1986
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman

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Vance Havner started preaching at 14, and didn't stop 'til he went to glory! Through a preaching and writing ministry that spanned over 70 years, Vance Havner spoke forth the truth of God's Word in a most effectual manner.

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