Top 100 Vance Quotes
#1. Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.
Jack Vance
#2. I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband ... ' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
Vance Havner
#3. Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.
Vance Havner
#4. Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!
Vance Havner
#5. I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
Vance Joy
#6. No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
Vance Havner
#7. A well crafted life is like a good poem. What is left out tells others every bit as much about you as what is added in.
Eric Vance Walton
#8. Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
Vance Havner
#9. We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs ... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.
Vance Havner
#10. Roger nodded. He was too old to hug his dad for long, and returned to his chair. "I'm gay." Saying it out loud was a relief. It was over! The hiding, the worrying, at least here, at home. "Well, you're not the only one in the world." Roger
Brad Vance
#11. But now he could rest. Now he'd arrived, in Jamie's arms, now he was home at last.
Brad Vance
#12. When the Lord's sheep are a dirty grey, all black sheep are more
comfortable.
Vance Havner
#13. Mister Vance, what a fine pleasure. Welcome to my home. Please, keep those quick fingers of yours to yourself though, sir." As
Pippa DaCosta
#15. It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.
Vance Havner
#16. People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.
Vance Havner
#17. You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
Vance Havner
#18. I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.
Chris Vance
#19. I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
Vance Havner
#20. I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.
Vance Gilbert
#21. This was what humans fumbled for. This was what they quested for in the dark.
Brad Vance
#22. Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
Vance Havner
#23. We don't study as children, and we don't make our kids study when we're parents. Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools - like peace and quiet at home - to succeed.
J.D. Vance
#24. Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal but the exercise.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#25. It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.
Vance Havner
#26. The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.
Jack Vance
#27. Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.
Danitra Vance
#28. There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.
Vance Havner
#29. There are also several practical aspects to learning more about
our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of
our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focus
on what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life more
fully.
Vance C. Kessler
#30. My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.
Jack Vance
#31. The more harried a customer, the more they purchased precooked or frozen food, the more likely they were to be poor. And I knew they were poor because of the clothes they wore or because they purchased their food with food stamps.
J.D. Vance
#32. Jesus Christ," he muttered to the ceiling. "All those times I sat in the office and laughed my ass off at stories of Lee, Eddie, Hank and Vance. They should have fuckin' medals.
Kristen Ashley
#33. But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.
J.D. Vance
#34. The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.
Vance Bourjaily
#35. He does what he wants, and he is relentless about it. It's Elon's world, and the rest of us live in it.
Ashlee Vance
#36. Who's taking care of you?" "Them, for now," said Julie, indicating Robie and Vance. "Is she in protective
David Baldacci
#37. I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school.
Ann Leckie
#38. We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
Vance Havner
#39. When Musk is present, the chats tend toward the absurd and fantastic
Ashlee Vance
#40. You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.
Vance Havner
#41. What is it like to a be published author? Image clawing your beating heart from your chest and flopping it onto a plate for a room of food critiques expecting an ambrosia that conjures visions of Heaven. That comes pretty close.
Vallory Vance
#42. back to 2004. SpaceX needed an actuator that would trigger the gimbal
Ashlee Vance
#43. What bizarre planet have I landed on? So Haley settles for a single kiss, and I lose it to the first guy to ask me out, after falling for some crazy theory involving my lucky bracelet?
Talia Vance
#44. Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.
Jack Vance
#45. Folks would discuss whether the Antichrist was already alive and, if so, which world leader it might be.
J.D. Vance
#46. The symbologist made a cryptic sign. That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.
Jack Vance
#47. Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
Vance Havner
#48. Let us leave this room, said Melancthe. It reeks of the brain.
Jack Vance
#49. I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.
Courtney B. Vance
#50. Sometimes I view members of the elite with an almost primal scorn - recently, an acquaintance used the word "confabulate" in a sentence, and I just wanted to scream. But
J.D. Vance
#51. It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
Jack Vance
#52. Faith is the womb in which all worthwhile and spectacular things have ever been born.
Eric Vance Walton
#53. You can't just cast aside family members because they seem uninterested in you. You've got to make the effort, because they're family.
J.D. Vance
#54. Adam tried to hide behind the trees in the garden. There is only one tree that can hide us from Him and that is the tree of the cross.
Vance Havner
#55. One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.
Vance Havner
#56. The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
Vance Havner
#57. He's hands-on to a degree that would make Hugh Hefner feel inadequate.
Ashlee Vance
#58. The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.
Vance Havner
#59. Rocky shook his head. "The dude is a closet case. I saw it. He wants it, but he's never had it. His gayginity is intact. And I mean it. Never again. I'm going to find a nice homo and settle down.
Brad Vance
#60. The big car companies are so derivative. They want to see it work somewhere else before they will approve the project and move forward.
Ashlee Vance
#61. The secret, so Shimrod knew, was never to accept the fairies' terms, but always to close the deal on one's own stipulations, otherwise the bargain was sure to turn sour.
Jack Vance
#62. Redemption is reliant on being forgiven
R.E. Vance
#63. If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
Vance Havner
#64. As the economies of Kentucky and West Virginia lagged behind those of their neighbors, the mountains had only two products that the industrial economies of the North needed: coal and hill people. And Appalachia exported a lot of both. Precise
J.D. Vance
#65. 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
#66. A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.
Vance Havner
#67. I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance
#68. Philo Vance / Needs a kick in the pance.
Ogden Nash
#69. Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
Vance Havner
#70. The young woman quoted Turgenev, "If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly or even harm him, you reproach him with every defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself.
Jack Vance
#71. A lot of students just don't understand what's out there," she told me, shaking her head. "You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don't even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.
J.D. Vance
#72. Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.
Jack Vance
#73. This flattery has been rather slow in coming. I think all of sudden late in life now I'm getting some credit for what I've done. Which is gratifying, but it's kind of a little late.
Jack Vance
#74. God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
Vance Havner
#75. When we are weakest and most despondent, Jesus is most considerate. When there is a break in our progress or we have a spell of depression, he sees the whole of our lives and in the light of that He is longsuffering with discordant details.
Vance Havner
#76. We must live in all kinds of days, both high days and low days, in simple dependence upon Christ as the branch on the vine. This is the supreme experience
Vance Havner
#77. I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
Jack Vance
#78. I am not partial to folk who are grim and austere. I prefer fanciful folk who make me laugh.
Jack Vance
#79. In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.
Jack Vance
#80. If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.
Vance Havner
#81. I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.
Jack Vance
#82. The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not.
Vance Havner
#83. I want people to understand something I learned only recently: that for those of us lucky enough to live the American Dream, the demons of the life we left behind continue to chase us. There
J.D. Vance
#84. When we first talked about the touch-screen, the guys came back and said, 'There's nothing like that in the automotive supply chain,'" Musk said. "I said, 'I know. That's because it's never been put in a fucking car before.
Ashlee Vance
#85. The life of an editor is not a glamorous one. You're a fixer; you make things better.
Courtney B. Vance
#86. site's lead writer, dug into the histories
Ashlee Vance
#87. If we don't come apart; we will come apart.
Vance Havner
#88. As we talked, I noticed little quirks that few others would. He didn't want to share his milk shake, which
J.D. Vance
#89. It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
Vance Havner
#90. Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to resist it.
J.D. Vance
#91. My parents' mistakes were not my fault, so I had no reason to hide them.
J.D. Vance
#92. A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'
Vance Havner
#93. Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Jack Vance
#94. Astarte said the jacket reminded her of an ancient demon called The Judge, who separated the righteous from the wicked - and then burned the righteous.
R.E. Vance
#95. Musk's vision, and, of late, execution seem to combine the best of Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller. With
Ashlee Vance
#96. I thought I lost you again. You couldn't know what those four years were like. To not know where you were, who you were with, or if you were being treated well? I wasn't sure for a long time if you were even alive. I don't ever want to go through that again. Vance ... The Elder Effect
D.L. Given
#97. I've never heard anyone else called "the nicest person in the world." For Gail, it's an entirely deserved title.
J.D. Vance
#98. The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance
#99. Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Vance Havner
#100. It used to be called the Lord's Day, now it is the weekend and if we group all holidays on weekends the devil will have scored another move against Sunday worship.
Vance Havner
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