Vance Havner Quotes

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

This little expression, 'It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere,' is a monstrous lie.

It's best not to appear to believe what you say but to believe what you say.

I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.

You are authentic when everything you say and everything you do you ACTUALLY believe.

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.

I never lie. I believe everything I say, so it's not a lie.

I can't write what I don't believe in.

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

I try as much as possible not to utter a single line that I don't believe in.

One of the things I learned early on was the system of believing: you have to believe in what you say. The camera is the arbiter of truth; it's the all-seeing eye that can pick out discrepancies. You can't lie to the camera. You must believe in what you're saying, or the audience won't believe you.

If you're out there saying something that you don't personally believe, then it doesn't really matter if a voter agrees with what you're saying. If they don't believe that you believe it, then they're not going to listen to you anyway.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.

I say what I say because I believe it from the bottom of my soul and I can back it up.

I really believe the stuff I say.

Sometimes when people say things, we should actually believe what they say.

I don't want some pretty face to tell me pretty lies, all I want is someone to believe.