Vance Havner

Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.

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

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

A preacher who is too big for a little crowd would be too little for a big crowd.

We need men of the cross with the message of the cross bearing the marks of the cross.

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 church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.

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

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.

Revival is falling in love with Jesus all over again.

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.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.

Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.

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

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

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

Its about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

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

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.

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.