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Civilization today reminds me of an ape with a blowtorch playing i

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. – Vance Havner

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It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in Gods name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there. – Vance Havner

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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didnt like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, Thats where I got my information about hell. – Vance Havner

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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

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I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so… heroic. – George Carlin

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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

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Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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