Quotes by Vance Havner

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
– 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
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
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
– 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
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.
– Vance Havner
People Some people are like wheelbarrows; useful only when pushed, and very easily upset. The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
– 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
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
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
You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
– Vance Havner