Vance Havner Quotes

Habits change into character.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.

See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

God desires to change us from the inside out. Renewing our minds, starving our self-destructive tendencies, and teaching us to form new habits.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes."

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

I'm more concerned about who you're becoming than what you're doing.

You must have the strength to discipline yourselves so that you can accomplish your goals and enhance your natural strengths. Habits of self-discipline formed while you are young will become part of the makeup of your character for the rest of your lives.

The more we search for ourselves, the less likely we are to find ourselves; and the more we search for God, and to serve our fellow-men, the more profoundly will we become acquainted with ourselves, and the more inwardly assured. This is one of the great spiritual laws of life.

What you do daily determines what you become permanently

Character is, for the most part, simply habit become fixed.