Vance Havner Quotes
In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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We just here to do our job.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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There's a classic element that all good Disney movies have. It really comes down to the storytelling, I think. It manages to push all of these buttons inside of us; there's a sentimentality.
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In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The one lesson I've learned from technology and food is the only time you know you're doing the wrong thing is when you're doing what everyone else is doing.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
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In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.
