A. N. Wilson Quotes

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons?

The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

Demolition is a part of construction.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on earth.

Reality is what you can get away with.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Men who refuse to worship the true God now worship themselves with tender devotion.

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

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.

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

The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

The GAA is the sporting wing of the IRA.

How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none.

Taigs don't pay rates.

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

There are so many glamorous actresses, but you know what? In the real world, nobody looks like that.

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.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.

Wherever faith has eyes to see, there is a smiling presence of the Son of God.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.