WN Stanley Quotes

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs.

Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullshit.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

The courageous have fears that cowards never know.

For Christians do not place their hope in their children, but rather their children are a sign of their hope . . . that God has not abandoned this world.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession.

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.

The Church is a family expecting guests.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Obey God and leave all the consequences to Him.

If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another.

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

The BIBLE redirects my will, cleanses my emotions, enlightens my mind, and quickens my total being

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

If we want to reach the people that no one else is reaching, we've got to do things that no one else is doing.

An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One is a ghost, the other a corpse.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.