Vance Havner Quotes
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Twerking has to end. Not for the ones that look good doing it, but for all the ones that you feel, 'You don't have enough to twerk back there. Your twerkin' look like jerkin.'
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
Garry Kasparov -
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Be careful not to start a company that really belongs as a feature of another company, like the 25 Twitter URL shortener companies out there. Pick a real problem that's here to stay.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.
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I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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Above and beyond drawing my creations, I try to incorporate some kind of message. I try not to end as merely a question but try to provide a conclusion within the work.
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A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.
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Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.
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For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of 'Christian unity'... It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.
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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
