Vance Havner Quotations | Page 2

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers.

I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God!

No life is great that does not point to Christ.

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.