Vance Havner Quotes
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.
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I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.
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No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
