Vance Havner

Who is Vance Havner?

Famous Quotes:

• If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
• Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
• I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
• Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
• Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
• You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
• It's about time we quit playing church in these services that start at eleven o clock sharp and end at twelve o clock dull.
• If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
• The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.