The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs. – Vance Havner
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didnt like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, Thats where I got my information about hell. – Vance Havner
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. – Vance Havner
I never appreciated positive heroes in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more productive literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. – Jose Saramago