Vance Havner Quotes

I like to see the people awake and alert.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.

People need to know what's going on. People need to wake up.

People never notice anything.

Awareness without action is worthless.

To be awake is to be alive.

The secret is to be awake. To be awake is everything.

Don't be fool's, don't be complacent, and stop being apathetic.

The people who work in intelligence work are more conscious, more apt to be attentive.

The price of eternal vigilance is indifference.

Unfortunately, this country requires body bags before it will act...

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

Readiness is an oft-mentioned - but frequently ignored - necessity.

Stay conscious and alive, day in and day out.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.