D. W. Wilson Quotes

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

We must meet the uncertainties of this world with the certainty of the world to come.

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.

Acquaint thyself with God.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

The scriptures are in print what Christ is in person.

If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity.

He had everything, but he possessed nothing. There is the spiritual secret.

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

I done learned my mistake and learned to do what's right by it. You still trying to get something for nothing. Life don't owe you nothing. You owe it to yourself. - Troy -

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else.

As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.

You got to take the crookeds with the straights. That's what Papa used to say.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.

I like the piano - I'm always about 15 feet away from a piano.

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.

Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

I wanted to emulate Bob Flanagan, the high voice in the 'Four Freshmen.' I wanted to sing high like he did.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

I balance family and career by doing what makes me the happiest! That for me, without question, is putting my family and kids first.

The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.

I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two different approaches, because you do need both.

Celebrities say the darnedest things.

I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.

Beyoncé don't get a lot of leaks. She just has a very tight control. Most of the time, that's generally not the case, but I pretty much follow her direction.

You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.

Beyonce is such a visual artist. This was just trying to figure out another side to her that could be fun and young and exciteful and a great video.