Vance Havner Quotes

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen, we would already be in heaven. And we are not there. That's where trust and faith comes in. You just say, "Lord, I don't understand it. But one thing I do know is that you understand it and that you are in control and I trust you."

If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job's dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

However God had it planned, I'm rockin' with how he do it. He took the steering wheel and I'm letting him drive.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

God was in control, and I was just pliable enough to say yes to wherever He would lead.

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

When we don't understand and don't agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we can't understand His wisdom. In faith, we are to accept His wisdom, His Word, and His workings, trusting in Him and obeying His commands.

Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will.

It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

What does God require of us? Our part is to believe. Our work is to trust the Lord. His requirement is that we let go and let God.

Trusting Him to work out your circumstances instead of using your own might and power will bring deep satisfying joy into your life.

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Faith says not, 'I see that it is good for me, so God must have sent it,' but, 'God sent it, and so it must be good for me.' Faith, walking in the dark with God, only prays Him to clasp its hand more closely.

I don't have control over everything; God has control over everything and I trust him, so I don't worry.

Nothing is so sweet as to lie passive in God's hands, and know no will but His.

Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to trouble about, or to make trouble about.