A. N. Wilson Quotes

I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.

I buried Little Ann by the side of Old Dan. I knew that was where she wanted to be. I also buried a part of my life along with my dog.

My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.

Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.

I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

If we try to obey without faith, we get nowhere. If we try to have faith without obedience, it ends in nothing.

I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

The most dangerous trap is just living and forgetting that God exists.

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell what your instincts are driving towards.

It is time for us to seek again the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Man's lordship has cost us too much.

I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.

The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.

It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic.

The Australian accent just a very lovely accent and it doesn't have the pretention maybe of an English accent, but yet seems a little bit more exotic than an American.

Why did I get married in a ballpark? My wife wanted a big diamond

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

We need to learn that truth consists not in correct doctrine, but in correct doctrine plus the inward enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.

If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people.

Enjoy yourself whilst you read!

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.

Lord Rothschild had access to all manner of leaders and experts. He was responsible only to the Prime Minister and answerable to neither the electorate nor the civil service chiefs.

The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.

A true initiation never ends.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.