WN Stanley Quotes

None of us know our real names.

Doctor Livingstone, I presume?

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

Abundant living means abundant giving.

The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

Disappointments will come and go, but discouragement is a choice that you make.

To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.

It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God

Nothing is more honoring to your heavenly Father than making life decisions based upon what he has claimed about himself.

The more successful you are the less accessible you will become.

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

Jesus never allowed His theology to get in the way of His ministry.

No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

It isn't about who is 'for' or 'against' you, it's about who you are for.

My high school science teacher once told me that much of Genesis is false. But since my high school teacher did not prove he was God by rising from the dead, I'm going to believe Jesus instead.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Progress requires change.

One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

The love of Christ comes from simple people who love simple people. Never be fooled by the spiritual leader who knows a lot but doesn't love a lot.

What could be and should be can’t be until God is ready for it to be.

A fool is a person who knows the difference between right and wrong, and chooses to do wrong.

The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

The root of anger is the perception that something has been taken. Something is owed you, and now a debt to debtor relationship has been established.

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

We have all been expelled from the Garden, but the ones who suffer most in exile are those who are still permitted to dream of perfection.

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

The way he plays Chess demonstrates a man's whole nature

Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

A good coach always coaches to a leader's potential, not his current level of performance. A good leadership coach will see the potential in you and inspire you accordingly.

The greatest thing you do as a leader may not be what you do as a leader but who watches you do what you do.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Nobody at home should feel like they are competing with somebody at work.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.