WN Stanley Quotes

How you live your life on this side of the grave determines what happens next.

Preacher's kids need another consistent voice in their lives over the years.

There is a big difference between being a leader and actually leading.

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

In leadership there are always problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. When you try to solve a tension, you create a problem.

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

Public loyalty results in private leverage.

Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

Leaders, if you allow wonder to shut down in you, you will shut it down in everyone around you.

It's OK to offend people with the Gospel, but, good grief- let's don't offend them with something else.

Christians are viewed as being "judgmental, homophobic, moralists" who think they are the only ones going to heaven and who "secretly relish the fact that everyone else is going to hell.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

Who are you and what breaks your heart?

If we start to dumb down what has been made clear, where does that stop?

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

Environments are the messages before the message.

As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

There are some rich people who, no matter how much God sends their way, never seem to put their hope in their riches.

I'm not a philanthropist. While I care about the poor, the issue of local or global poverty doesn't keep me up at night.

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

It is through the multitudinous mass of living human hearts, of human acts and words of love and truth, that the Christ of the first century has become the Christ of the nineteenth.

Most people would succeed above themselves.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

You may have the gift of giving.

When we talk about what we believe we divide. When we talk about who we believe in we unite.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

I have only to be true to the highest I know - success or failure is in the hand of God.

The universe does not make sense without God.

Be victorious in the home, and you are victorious everywhere.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?

We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

When America has been discovered in America it will be discovered in Europe. They are looking for America now.

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

Machinery is the subconscious mind of the world.

A vice is a failure of desire