A. N. Wilson Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

It's never too late to have a fling For autumn is just as nice as spring And it's never too late to fall in love.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.

What I cannot know by reason, I can know by simply believing.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

Many Christians are satisfied with their destination but they neglect the journey.

Sometimes the best encouragement in the world is challenging someone to do more than they think they can do.

We who are left, how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.

The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously.

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

The atonement in Jesus Christ's blood is perfect; there isn't anything that can be added to it. It is spotless, impeccable, flawless. It is perfect as God is perfect.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.

One unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.

The Bible is not an end in itself, but a means to bring men to an intimate and satisfying knowledge of God.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

This is the age of bargain hunters. If it had been this way in biblical times, we'd probably have been offered another commandment free if we had accepted the first ten.

The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.

Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.

Faith is not a once-done act, but a continuous gaze of the heart at the Triune God.

Refuse to be average.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.