Vance Havner Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.

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  Soul, Missionary, Christ

• We have suffered from the preaching of cheap grace. Grace is free, but it is not cheap. People will take anything that is free, but they are not interested in discipleship. They will take Christ as Savior but not as Lord.

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  People, Grace, Christ

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

• A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.

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  Loyalty, Jesus, Husband

• If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.

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  Son, Honor, Exaltation

  Vance Havner (1973). “Three-Score & Ten”, Fleming H. Revell Company

• No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

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  Christian, Men, Lord

• It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

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  Jesus, Egypt, Want

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, Solid Christian Books

• Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

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  Christian, Jesus, Differences

• We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

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  Ambition, Self, Rose

• I know that some are always studying the meaning of the fourth toe of the right foot of some beast in prophecy and have never used either foot to go and bring men to Christ. I do not know who the 666 is in Revelation but I know the world is sick, sick, sick and the best way to speed the Lord's return is to win more souls for Him.

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  Winning, Men, Feet

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.62, Solid Christian Books

• One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.

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  Christian, Two, Church Today

  Vance Havner (1967). “Living in Kingdom Come”

• A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

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  Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

• There are many who say they want to be victorious Christians, but few are willing to endure the discipline necessary to make one a good solider of Jesus Christ. There is a prize to possess, but before we possess it there is a price to be paid, and few will pay it.

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  Christian, Jesus, Discipline

• 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?'

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  Christian, Mother, Morning

• Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

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  Christian, Eruption, Concerned

• When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.

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  Christian, Hands, Trying

• Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

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  Jesus, Men, Giving

  Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

• No life is great that does not point to Christ.

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  Christian, Doe, Life Is Great

• 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."

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  Christian, Winning, Self

• Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.

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  Jesus, Men, Champion

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, p.3, Solid Christian Books

• We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience

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  Christian, Simple, Vines

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