Vance Havner Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.

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  Christian, Eye, People

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

• Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.

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  Christian, Hatred, Sin

• 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'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.

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  Tired, Years, Alcohol

• There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'

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  Names, Sin, Ministers

• I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.

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  Husband, People, Sin

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

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  Men, Sin, Trouble

• When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

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  Christian, Pride, Upset

• Every Christian is a priest, not offering a sacrifice for sins - since that has been done once and for all - but offering his person, praise and possessions.

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  Christian, Sacrifice, Offering

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