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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
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.
— Vance Havner
I don't believe God is going to fill anybody with the Holy Spirit until the purpose of their heart is to glorify Jesus and to glorify God.
— Vance Havner
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
— Vernon Howard
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
— Dante Alighieri
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
— Oscar Wilde
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
— William Hazlitt
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
The best place for a leader isn't always at the top position. It is the place where they can serve the best and add the most value to other people.
— John Maxwell
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
— Zig Ziglar