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'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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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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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.
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Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.
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A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.
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Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.
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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.
