WN Stanley Quotes

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought to begin with God’s idea of God, and God’s idea of God is Christ

You always have God's undivided attention.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

We don't fall in love and then get married; instead we get married and then learn what love requires.

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

When I count other people's blessings I lose sight of mine.

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.

The one supreme business of life is to find God's plan for your life and live it

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.

Jesus will meet me today in the person of someone in need-I must not miss him.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.

The Indian is making an amazing discovery, namely that Christianity and Jesus are not the same - that they may have Jesus without the system that has been built up around Him in the West.

The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.

If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.

To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.

Wherever a cat sits, there shall happiness be found.

Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure.

Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

For those who love dogs, it would be the worst form of a lie to call any place where dogs were banned "Paradise." Certainly no loving God would separate people from their canine friends for eternity.