WN Stanley Quotes
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.
If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.
The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like.
Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.
Not the one who knows the most, but the one who loves faithfully and consistently the most, is a true follower of Jesus.
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.
We spend so much time and expend so much energy trying to gain a sense of worth from othersultimately, only God's opinion of us matters.
If you don't surrender to God, don't think you don't surrender. Everybody surrenders -- to something.
I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
One impulse of photography, as immediate as its impulse to extend the visible, is to theatricalize its subjects. The photographer's command, Watch the birdie! is essentially a stage direction.
The only thing you believe in is the thing you believe in enough to practice. Your creed is your deed.
When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.
I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.
The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.
If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.
The success of one market model cannot be migrated to another. Ignoring Macau's special characteristics and duplicating a Las Vegas or an Atlantic City would not be a successful strategy.
The point of equilibrium will be known by the criterion that an infinitely small amount of commodity exchanged in addition, at the same rate, will bring neither gain nor loss of utility.
Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.
On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.
We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.
Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.
The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
Ripe bananas are the mark of a good produce section. A good produce section is the mark of a superior grocery store. A superior grocery store is the mark of a good man.
Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.
Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.
I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.