Vance Havner Quotes

If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.

We've got to remember the Book says the devil "walketh about the earth to and fro seeking who he may devour", and he nearly got me and he had me for a while. It didn't mean that I was no longer a Christian or that God had disowned me.

If you're going to stand up for Jesus, your life will be a battle between light and darkness. And for everything that God will bring into your life that represents the light, the devil-he's such a sly fox-will come at you with two times more attributes of evil.

There are some days when I think for sure there are so many other stronger Christians than me out there.

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

Life is war. That's not all it is. But it is always that. Our weakness in prayer is owing largely to our neglect of this truth. Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief.

We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Just emotionally, as amazing as it is to win the World Cup, it's emotionally draining in many ways.

When a person is juggling a lot of emotions in a single day, it can take a toll.

The Christian life is one of spiritual courage and determination lived out in our flesh

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them," to tempt Him withal, He did not stand and look upon them, viewing their glory, and pondering their empire.... but instantly, without stay, He cries, "Get thee hence, Satan." Meet thy temptation in its entrance with thoughts of faith concerning Christ on the cross; this will make it sink before thee. Entertain no parley, no dispute with it, if thou wouldst not enter into it.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

Nothing bothers the devil more than a Christian delighting in God’s presence.