D. W. Wilson Quotes

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

It is easier to communicate with spirits than for one university department to communicate with another.

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

Most Christians are satisfied living as common Christians, without an insatiable hunger for the deeper things of God.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14

Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

A world of confusion and disappointment results from trying to believe without obeying.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

My daughter is a redneck woman, she's a redneck girl.

I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.

I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.

We must invite the Cross to do its deadly work within before we can be free.

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.

As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.

You're making movies for 15 years and now people are like, 'You're the AT&T guy.'

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

I never had to say to myself, 'OK now, I've got to grow up and work for a bank, or go and sell real estate.' I never had to make that kind of break.

I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

[Prayer] takes no time, but it occupies all our time.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

Anybody who can write home for money can write for magazines.