A. N. Wilson Quotes

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.

Worship, I say, rises or falls with our concept of God .... and if there is one terrible disease in the Church of Christ, it is that we do not see God as great as He is.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

Maybe God is calling you to do something extraordinary that isn't on your calendar; something to revive your soul!

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.

The best surprise is no surprise.

Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

The easiest way to get brainwashed is to be born. All of the above principles then immediately go into action, a process which social psychologists euphemistically call socialization.

I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.

Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.

No wife, no horse, no mustache

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.

The opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the most people can do is sometimes not to be as weak as they've been at other times.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

What's funny is that there's a lot of great Australian actors in American movies but you don't often hear them do their Australian, original accent.

I claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

belief is the death of intelligence.

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

God purposed redemption in Christ Jesus before the world began, and His plan does not need any editing by man.

I have auditory hallucinations, I hear voices saying derogatory things, like I'm terrible and I'm going to die, and they're usually worse in the afternoon.

To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith.

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

The only time that most women give their orating husbands undivided attention is when the old boys mumble in their sleep.

Entropy requires no maintenance.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

I write for myself and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.

The KEY to disciplining ourselves in the area of obedience is always keeping in mind to whom we are being obedient.

Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible.

When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.