A. N. Wilson Quotes

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.

For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.

It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

If no God, mankind is a set of bi-pedal carbon units of mostly water. And nothing else

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach.

No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.

This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Hippies generally aren't busy with anything except feeling sorry for themselves.

There's a seeker born every minute.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.

God's mercy is boundless, free and, through Jesus Christ our Lord, available to us now in our present situation.

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

Until the Bible begins to talk to us, we really have not been reading it.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

To sell something, tell a woman it's a bargain; tell a man it's deductible.

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

In politics a week is a very long time.

I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

Funny is an attitude.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

Well, I didn't need them. I didn't need anyone. I was Lola Rose. I just wished I looked more like my idea of Lola Rose.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

Loneliness is a very special place, Silently silently you touch my face

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.