Vance Havner Quotes

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?

That's all I want in life is to be remembered as a guy that really loved God.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

From the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties, I approached Rome at a snail's pace. Having concluded that God existed, I could not seriously entertain the thought of not trying to be in contact with Him.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

The one who turns his back on the world and its comforts and, sets out on the path that leads to the Beloved has to face countless difficulties. But he brakes them all for the sake of the Beloved.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

No holiday, no job, no amount of money, not even my own security can mean more to me than my love for God.

The Creator of the seas, sands, and endless stars is reaching out to you this very day! He is offering the grand recipe for happiness, peace, and eternal life!

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

The Christ path is the path I've walked all my life, so it's normal and natural. And I have no reason to abandon it because it leads to where I want to go.

Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.

Look at Christ, my dear friend: His life was divine through and through, full of self-denial, and He did everything for mankind, finding His satisfaction and His delight in the dissolution of His material being.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?