A. N. Wilson Quotes
The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.
No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist.
I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money.
God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.
Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.
We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.
Getting out and staying out of debt is key. debt is the biggest barrier, a parasite to wealth.
A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
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.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
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.
Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.
The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married, there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no.
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.
All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.
The widest thing in the universe is not space, it is the potential capacity of the human heart
Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
