J. D. Vance Quotes

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

Where God guides He provides. He is not responsible for expenses not on His schedule. He does not foot the bill when we leave His itinerary.

Before we can strengthen believers or win the lost, we must be converted from the self-life to the Christ-life. . . "Not I, but Christ."

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.

Any man who takes Jesus Christ seriously becomes the target of the devil. Most church members do not give Satan enough trouble to arouse his opposition

The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape.

Ive done a lot of movies, but my favorite was Blind Faith.

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.

I'd never been published when I was young.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

No nation can last long when it stops praying and takes up playing.

You can't preach it like it is if you don't believe it like it was.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

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

There are no trivial assignments in the work of the Lord.

A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.

Faith has no value of its own, it has value only as it connects us with Him. It is a trick of Satan to get us occupied with examining our faith instead of resting in the Faithful One.

Do not so contemplate eternity that you waste today.

It is debatable which is causing us more harm - hot-headed ignorance or cold-hearted intellectualism.

Not everyone who has made peace with God has realized the peace of God.

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.

Too many Christians are stuffing themselves with gospel blessings while millions have never had a taste.

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

Self, service, substance is the Divine order and nothing counts until we give ourselves.

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.

Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism.

If you take yourself too seriously, you're dead in the water. I think the key to all is to have a laugh, have fun, and express every desire you had, as a kid.

I don't consider myself an action hero, at all. My domestic life is the same as anyone else's.

Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly say whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy or I'm a good guy in wolf's clothing or sheep's clothing.

Storytelling is about listening in any media.

Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see the person in between the cameras, and a sane person would go, "I can't do this."

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.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.