Vance Havner Quotes

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.

It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

He only can truly pray who is all aglow for holiness, for God, and for heaven.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

Fear God and work hard.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

A virtuous character is likened to an unblemished flower. Piety is a fadeless bud that half opens on earth and expands through eternity. Sweetness of temper is the odor of fresh blooms, and the amaranth flowers of pure affection open but to bloom forever.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.