Vance Havner Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.

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  Christian, Wise, Stress

• There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

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  Son, Bigger And Better, Laziness

• God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.

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  Men, Brave, Today

• The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.

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  Christian, Tragedy, Saint

• 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”

• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.

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  Zoos, Civilization, Looks

• The devil's not fighting churches today, he's joining churches.

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  Fighting, Church Today, Devil

• We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.

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  Kings, Heart, Dust

  Vance Havner (0101). “It is Time”, p.63, Solid Christian Books

• I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

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  Giving, Meditation, Today

• There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.

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  Comfort, Needs, Ministry

  Vance Havner (1948). “"That I May Know Him,": A Personal Testimony”

• When God's people are removed from this earth, you might as well try to dam up Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stem the flood of lawlessness that will engulf mankind. Thank God for the restraining Spirit today!

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  Christian, Fall, People

• You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.

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  Christian, Practice, Suffering

• Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

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  Christian, Eye, Blind Spots

• Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before.

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  Home, One Day, Today

• To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

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  Christian, Average, Would Be

• The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.

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  Christian, Sound, Doctrine

• Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

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  Today, Waste, Eternity

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, p.2, Solid Christian Books

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