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Literary Critic Inspirational Quotes (30050)

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We are challenged these days, but not changed convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not and thereby we deceive ourselves.
Vance Havner
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Vance Havner
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The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
Vance Havner
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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
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Vance Havner
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Too many church services start at eleven sharp and end at twelve dull.
Vance Havner
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If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
Vance Havner
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If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.
Vance Havner
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I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
Vance Havner
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There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.
Vance Havner
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It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable it is our duty to make it available.
Vance Havner
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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.
Vance Havner
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We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism we died with Christ and rose to new life.
Vance Havner
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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.
Vance Havner
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Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Honore de Balzac
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The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.
Hugh MacLennan
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
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We can't forever be spending our lives paying for political follies that never gave us anything but always took from us, and I amcontent with the narrowest metes and bounds provided I have peace and quiet for work.
Stefan Zweig
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Style is not an end in itself, it is only a means to an end - the means of telling a story.
Ayn Rand
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Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle
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Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I can swallow gruel soup, egg soup, and all manner of soups, without making faces much. Secondly, I can pretty well live without tea.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberless prejudices from every thing which passes around him.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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many things I knew, I have forgotten many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about some things I know, I have found not worth knowing and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
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