Vance Havner Quotes

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.
Vance Havner

God, Before, Sometimes

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

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

Time, God, Parents

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

Enough, Vision, Step

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
Vance Havner

Nothing, Both, Ends

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

Him, Keep, Devil

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

End, Start, Church

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

Tired, Year, Sickness

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
Vance Havner

Talking, Surely, Leads

You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
Vance Havner

Death, Lost, Hide

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

Men, Wish, Happened

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Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

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