Vance Havner Quotes

If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

Vance Havner

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• I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Important
  • Think
  • Christian

• I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Church
  • Christian
  • Catholic

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Christian
  • Brand
  • Shoe

• I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Never
  • Devil
  • Catholic

• I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • War
  • Christian
  • Woman

• Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Help
  • Christian
  • Spirit

• You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • America
  • Christian
  • Years

• English churchmen have long gazed with love on the primitive church as the ideal of Christian perfection, the Eden wherein the first fathers of their faith walked blameless before God and passionless towards each other.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Christian
  • Perfection

• In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • School
  • High
  • Water

• When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

  

  Dan Totheroh
  • Money
  • Heart
  • Bad

• If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Myself
  • Christian
  • Something

• I'm a born-again Christian. I was raised Episcopalian - I've always been of a Christian faith, but I became much more active in it when I married my first husband, Marvin. I changed from Episcopalian to Baptist.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Husband

• We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Christian
  • Titles
  • New Testament

• So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

  

  Harry Reasoner
  • Christian
  • Christmas
  • Worth

• The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Complete

• If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Christian
  • Devil
  • Average