J. D. Vance Quotes
Furthermore, unlike Man's other great good friend the horse, the cat is no sweating serf of Man. The only labor she condescends to perform is to catch mice and rats, and that's fun.
The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
God has a place and purpose for you, somewhere for you to be and something for you to do. You never will be happy elsewhere, nor can you please God anywhere but there.
The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.
Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches.
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!
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
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.
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and less objectionable.
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.
If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.
I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
The early Christians condemned false doctrine in a way that sounds almost unchristian today.
You're just like, "I like doing this - it's something I have a lot of passion for." You happen to do it, you enjoy songwriting, and eventually if you're writing enough songs, then you fall into it.
I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.
The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.
When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.
Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing in a room full of dynamite. It looks like the monkeys are about to operate the zoo, and the inmates are taking over the asylum.
I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.