Vance Havner Quotes
Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
Quotes to Explore
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If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?
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By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.
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Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
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Children are all foreigners.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.
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I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.
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The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.
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We live in a world of replicas, and I try desperately in a world of replicas to produce things that are not replicas of anything.
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Passion doesn't count the cost. … Passion is destructive.
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She walked upon the grass, Still quavering. The winds were like her maids, On timid feet, Fetching her woven scarves, Yet wavering.
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You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.
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I'm sure that that could be indented more readably, but I'm scared of the awk parser.
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All these fine Christian-type people that seem to think they know what God wants for all of us, that's certainly more of a sin then anything they would claim about us. To judge people is one of the greatest sins.
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Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.
