“The itch for bigness is a dangerous thing. It has made a castaway of many a man whom God once richly blessed. A man should desire to be neither larger nor smaller than pleases God. Better than that, he should not bother at all about how large or how small but rather how faithful he shall be." -Vance Havner
The Vance Havner Quotebook, p. 18
Compiled by Dennis J. Hester
Baker Book House, 1986
“The preacher who is concerned with gaining a reputation, rising in his profession, is always in bondage. Every great opportunity finds him tense and nervous for fear he will not ‘put it over.’ He measures success by audience response, the compliments of his hearers, his rating among his contemporaries.”
Ibid., p. 19
“America is amusement and entertainment mad, and we have the highest per capita rate of boredom of any people on the face of the earth. There’s a delusion going around today, even in evangelical and fundamental circles sometimes [it has now become commonplace--editor], that we must be entertained at church. Christianity has come all the way from an experience to a performance.”
Ibid., p. 33
with thanks to Doug Kutilek (see KJV link to side)
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