Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Vance Havner Quotes 1

* We have a story to tell to the nations, but we must first tell the Gospel to our neighbors.  Some people will send men across the sea to witness, but they won't even cross the street to witness to their neighbor.
* God's people must do God's work God's way.
* You can have all your I's dotted and all your T's crossed and still misspell the word, think that over.
* You can play the notes of Christianity and still not play the music.  You can have all the theology and still not have a song in your heart.
* If you're not right in your Jesus-ology, you'll be mixed up on all the rest of your theology.
* The forgotten beatitude is this - Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in Jesus.
* There are three kinds of worship:  idol worship, idle worship, and then there's ideal worship, and that worship is in spirit and in truth.
* You go to Heaven heart first, not head first.
* There are three kinds of lies:  white lies, black lies, and statistics.
* The lowest ebb is the turning of the tide.
* The religious experts of Jesus' day planned his crucifixion.
* Be a sword with one point, not a broom with straws pointed in every direction.
* The sun is old-fashioned, but without it you grope in darkness; air is old-fashioned, without it you gasp and die; water is old-fashioned, no satisfactory substitute has ever been discovered; the plain Gospel is old-fashioned:  Sin's as black as ever, Hell's as hot as ever, Judgment is certain, Salvation is free, and Eternity is forever.
* The world is living in gross darkness today.  Mammoth Cave is not limited to Kentucky; it is universal.
* We must make room on our schedule for the unscheduled visit of God.
* Man's brain today lives in unprecedented brilliance, but his heart dwells in unmitigated darkness.
* Nothing is going to happen unless God moves on the scene.
* Man calls it broadmindedness, but he's really only stretching his conscience.
* Men want to know how much sin they can enjoy and still be a Christian and get to Heaven.
* Tragedy has become comedy in America.  We are laughing at things today that we ought to cry about.
* Nothing is definite, everything is fuzzy today.  Black and white have become smudged into an indefinite gray.
* The real problem is sin, and science has no answer for sin.
* It's hard to find an old-fashioned sinner anymore; they are scarcer than whooping cranes.
* Many have a sermon on how to preach so as to convert nobody.  They are experts at the art of almost saying something.  They preach on sin, but they never mention any of the particular sins of the congregation.
* The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for the saints.
* When the Lord's sheep are a dirty gray, all the black sheep are more comfortable.
* I want to be shipwrecked on God, and stranded on omnipotence.
* Here's a pretty good way to test your Christianity:  Do you want all the light you can get?
* Redeem the time; spend time with the Redeemer.
* Jesus came not to brush away the cobwebs but to kill the spider.
* We spend more money for dog food and chewing gum today than we do for world missions.
* The devil has a thousand devices to get you used to the dark.