A. N. Wilson Quotes

The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

Sometimes when we get overwhelmed we forget how big God is.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

When forced to pick between truth and legend, print the legend.

There's nothing better than online shopping in your PJ's with a glass of wine with the kids asleep!

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry

A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

My Wings are a thousand books.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

Awareness is empowering.

I am not here to change the world. I am changing the world because I am here.

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

Nothing happens until I make it happen.

When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

To me, redneck is a sense of self and a way of life.

Never be afraid to fail. Be afraid of not learning from mistakes.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

No one should ever have to read a sentence twice because of the way it is put together.

It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.

War creates peace like hate creates love.

God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.

It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.

I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.

A scared world needs a fearless church.

There's something people find hilarious about dogs surfing and dancing and talking in the movies. I think it's nice for people - I think it's wish fulfillment - to see animals talking.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

The Christian woman should remember that she cannot buy true attractiveness; that radiance which really shines forth in beauty is of the heart and spirit and not of the body.