Vance Havner Quotes

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Life is wasted if we do not grasp the glory of the cross, cherish it for the treasure that it is, and cleave to it as the highest price of every pleasure and the deepest comfort in every pain. What was once foolishness to us—a crucified God—must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.

Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as our Prophet. Let us work diligently after Him as our Example. Let us look anxiously for Him as our coming redeemer of body as well as soul. But above all let us prize Him as our Sacrifice, and rest our whole weight on His death as atonement for sin. Let His blood be more precious in our eyes every year we live. Whatever else we glory in about Christ, let us glory above all things in His cross.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

The stool of repentance and the foot of the cross are the favorite positions of instructed Christians.

Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

If there were more than one path to salvation then it would totally negate Jesus' sacrifice on the cross, his life, his teachings.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.