A. N. Wilson Quotes
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
A holy man isn't aware that he's holy..As soon as we begin to talk about how holy we are, we aren't holy any more.
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.
All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.
People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ.
The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.
Nothing in or of this world measures up to the simple pleasure of experiencing the presence of God.
Maybe that's why there's an insecurity sometimes in acting, because it's not like there's a correlation between hard work and how people receive you.
The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb.
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is now speaking.
As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.
God sees us perfect in His Son while He disciplines and chastens and purges us that we may be partakers of His holiness.
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.
There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.
My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.
Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
To become effective men of God, then, we must know and acknowledge that every grace and every virtue proceeds from God alone, and that not even a good thought can come from us except it be of Him.
The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.
One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.
We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.