J. D. Vance Quotes
Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.
At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
The devil is not fighting religion. He´s too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by imitation than by outright opposition.
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.
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.
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
Salt seasons, purifies, preserves. But somebody ought to remind us that salt also irritates. Real living Christianity rubs this world the wrong way.
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
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.
The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.
We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited by the Spirit of God.
Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.
Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done
Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.
A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.
Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.
One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.
The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.
No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.
Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.
What our Lord said about cross-bearing and obedience is not in fine type. It is in bold print on the face of the contract.
We need men of the cross, with the message of the cross, bearing the marks of the cross.
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.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be on the Lordship of Christ. When we get right on that point we are right all down the line. God honors the exaltation of His Son.
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.
We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
Real revival does not begin with joyous singing. It begins with conviction and repentance on the part of Christians.
God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.
The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded.
A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ.
Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.
While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.
