Quotes from Vance Havner

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.

We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.

He who waits on God loses no time.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

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.

Too many are willing to sit at God's table, but not work in his field.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

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.

Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

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.

God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

God's Word is its own best argument.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

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

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.