A. N. Wilson Quotes

A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked.

We operate by faith, which means that we have confidence in what God says, whether we fully understand it or not

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.

The worst crimes are not committed by evil degenerates, but by decent and intelligent people taking 'pragmatic' decisions.

Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

What is wrong with Christians today is that we have the gifts of God but have forgotten the God of the gifts.

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another

Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.

Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness.

I'm a black American playwright. I couldn't be anything else. I make my art out of black American culture; they're all cut out of the same cloth. That's who I am; that's who I write about.

Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

I feel like I'm a fan of film who's actually in the business, too. So it'd be like saying like, ‘Yeah, I love the NFL,’ and then, ‘Yeah, I'm also a wide receiver.’

I did have Skidz overalls. Remember Skidz, those baggy plaid pants that look like pajamas? So I did rock overalls, but not in purple velvet. I couldn't find those.

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal.

The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

I think God cares about everything he created.

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

Certitude is seized by some minds, not because there is any philosophical justification for it, but because such minds have an emotional need for certitude.

Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

I've tried to do everything possible to prepare myself and prepare our football team to be great.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

The greatest success in life is to feel I’m something for someone; the feeling of falling in love, the newness of love.

In Rome, I loved seeing the Caravaggios. There are churches in Rome that have Caravaggios, and there's one, not far from Piazza Navona, that has the best, I think: St. Matthew with the money.