WN Stanley Quotes

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Christianity not only saves you from sin, but from cynicism.

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

We must continue to pursue the thought that we do not merely belong to the Kingdom - the Kingdom belongs to us.

Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

It is only in the depths of crisis and despair that the fear of losing one's personality breeds millennial hopes of rescue: otherwise, complacency prevails.

Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.

I live in the house bad reviews built.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.

Most of us are married to a model of ministry and we flirt with the Great Commission.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

When Fred Astaire danced, everything in this world was perfect.

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

I think of myself as a meat-and-potatoes kind of director.

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair.

Don't be fair, be engaged.

In choosing not to be a beast, I discovered my humanity. I became autodidactic, self-educated - a critical thinker.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

Leaders fix things that are broken.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

Music is something you hear in your head, that's all, we shouldn't give it more than it is.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.

Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

People are far more interested in what works than what's true.

We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.

As a pastor I've spent 30 years talking to people and heard every kind of story imaginable.