Vance Havner Quotes

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Spreading the news is your duty as a Christian, and there are many ways to do this.

I put a lot of my studies into my music and my writing. I want to be able to address real life issues in a way that not only takes God into account but takes his perspective as we see in His Word. I have a strong desire to be pastor that - I do think it's in my future, but I'm not sure how soon. I do this as a season of preparation for that.

Our No. 1 goal on this Earth is to make disciples. That's the only job we want to do.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.

I'd love to be placed in a position to make a difference in regards to my faith, in regards to speaking for Jesus, whether that's some type of ministry platform, being in a big-time position where I could make a difference.

We have to be ready to share our faith in Christ.

At first, we were militant about our faith, really in people's faces. We used to say, 'I don't care if they kick us off the stage - I'm gonna tell them about Jesus!' But what good did that do? They never invited us back to the club.

A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.

I love being an example, that, hey, I'm young, I'm a rapper, and the gospel is the power of God for salvation even for me.

When preaching and private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready.Get good striking tracts, or none at all. But a touching gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out without your tracts.

You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.

The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.

Our task is to live our personal communion with Christ with such intensity as to make it contagious.

No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.

If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most. It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.

Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.

Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.

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

If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.