“It is better to wake up five hundred Christians than to convert five hundred sinners, for if five hundred Christians really wake up, they will win more than five hundred sinners.”1
“The task of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
“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.”
“Our Lord said, ‘Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.’ It is evident, then, that a true disciple is a soul-winner. It is possible to sit on the shore discussing the signs of the times when we ought to be driven by the signs of the times to launch out into the deep and let down our nets for a draught.”
“Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.”
“Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.”
“If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.”
“The hope of dying is the only thing that keeps me alive.”
“God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.”
“God isn’t a talent scout looking for someone who is ‘good enough’ or ‘strong enough.’ He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.”
“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.”
“Abraham did not know where he was going immediately, but he knew where he was going ultimately. He did not know the Whither but he knew the Whom. He believed God, and, being sure of his destiny, he did not worry about his destination.”
“The devil is not fighting religion. He’s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.”
“We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.”
“He who waits on God loses no time.”
“A Christian is not a depository of the truth; he’s a dispenser of the truth.”
“Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.”
“Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.”
“When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn’t like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That’s where I got my information about hell.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
Inspirational Quotes by Vance Havner
24 Vance Havner Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
TOP 25 QUOTES BY VANCE HAVNER (of 206) | A-Z Quotes
Vance Havner Quotes (Author of Though I Walk Through the Valley)