Vance Havner Quotes

Believe in Jesus Christ, our Savior and our Redeemer, the Son of God, who came to earth and walked the dusty roads of Palestine - the Son of God - to teach us the way of truth and light and salvation, and who, in one great and glorious act offered an atonement for each of us. He opened the way of salvation and exaltation for each of us, under which we may go forward in the Church and kingdom of God. Be not faithless, but believe in the great and wonderful and marvelous blessings of the Atonement.

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Jesus Christ is the LORD. I believe in that.

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

The Bible is the fountain of truth.

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

It's all about Jesus.

Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

Those of us who are Christians believe Jesus Christ is the only one who can redeem us.

The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.

The Lord Jesus, everything. In himself worse than nothing. By grace, in Christ, the son of the King.

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment.

One who claimed what Jesus claimed about himself couldn't be a good moral man or a prophet. That option isn't open to us, and Jesus never intended it to be.

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person: Jesus Christ, the Word of God made flesh.

Our foundation is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The authority of the holy priesthood is here, restored under the hands of those who received it directly from our Lord. The curtains have been parted, and the God of heaven and His Beloved Son have spoken to the boy prophet Joseph in opening this last and final dispensation. Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.

We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part of her life beat, part of the beating heart of what makes them tick. They revere Scripture, not because Scripture becomes an idol, but because it discloses God who is especially come after us in salvation and redemption through the person of his son, his cross, his resurrection, the full sweep of the gospel.

Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.

God without Christ is no God.