Vance Havner Quotes

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.

All Christian life is to be measured by Scripture; by every word thereof.

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.

So many Christian leaders have been so tepid or downright silent on the advance of the homosexual agenda.

Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

A trinity of persons cannot exist in the divine essence whether the persons be supposed to be finite or infinite

Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Jesus did not come to be the Messiah

Believe what you want But don't dumb down what Jesus said.

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

All bibles are man-made.

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.