J. D. Vance Quotes

If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.

Too many are willing to sit at God’s table, but not work in his field.

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.

I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.

I don't want to be a star - most of the ones I know are too unhappy.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?

At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head this, I told her that if I had her looks and talent, I'd keep me and fire the agent!

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!

It is one thing to say Jesus is all you want; until He is all you have and you discover He is all you ever needed.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

What is an evil man? The man is evil who coerces obedience to his private ends, destroys beauty, produces pain, extinguishes life.

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

If the devil cannot keep you from being saved, if next he fails to make you backslide, then he undertakes to keep you just an average Christian. Here he succeeds with most believers.

What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.

Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars.

There is no devil in the first two chapters of the Bible and no devil in the last two chapters. Thank God for a book that disposes of the devil!

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

My arm extended upward in pleading for peace and the Union of our Fathers... When my hand came down from that impassioned gesticulation, it fell slowly and sadly by the side of a Secessionist.

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.

Planning is bringing the future into the present.

I loathed William Frawley and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wouldn’t be a scene where we had to be in bed together.

The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there.

Lady, running down to the riptide. Taken away to the dark side.

God is on the lookout today for a man who will be quiet enough to get a message from Him, brave enough to preach it, and honest enough to live it.

I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. [So when you are crying remember also to anticipate and look for the rainbow.]

Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs.

Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.

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?'

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Success and all good things in life, start with a genuine concern for others.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

Our Lord sent His disciples out as sheep among wolves; now the wolves are being invited into the sheepfold.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

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.