Vance Havner Quotes

A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

Vance Havner

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• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

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• The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
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• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

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• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
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• Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

  

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• I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.

  

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• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

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• I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

  

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• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
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• Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

  

  Walter Koenig
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• I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.

  

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• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
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• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

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• Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.

  

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• The journey matters as much as the goal.

  

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• I obsess and fantasize about whatever attractive men may be on the flight. Though these days the pickings are lean. No one flies regularly anymore but fugly, bland businessmen, and hideous families with no-neck monsters for children.

  

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• And learn the luxury of doing good.

  

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• If there were only one religion, God would indeed be manifest.

  

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• Whilst a man is persuaded that he has it in his power to contribute anything, be it ever so little, to his salvation, he remains in carnal self-confidence; he is not a self-despairer, and therefore is not duly humbled before God, he believes he may lend a helping hand in his salvation, but on the contrary, whoever is truly convinced that the whole work depends singly on the will of God, such a person renounces his own will and strength; he waits and prays for the operation of God, nor waits and prays in vain.

  

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• Am I R&B because I'm black? Am I pop because I have a song called 'Milkshake'? Or can I just be who the hell I am? Good Lord, people make it seem like we're doing heart transplants here, but we're just making music!

  

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  • People
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• A mortician can make a dead man look better than he ever did when he was alive. So churches like Sardis may appear very much alive when they are dead in the sight of the Lord. God knows the difference.

  

  Vance Havner
  • God
  • May