Quote by Vance Havner
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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You havent lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide. – 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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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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If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it. – Stanley Garn

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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers. – Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Civilization

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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Civilization

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James

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