WN Stanley Quotes

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

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

Wealth is what you accumulate, not what you spend.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

What God originates, God orchestrates.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

What does it say about us that we are rarely perplexed by the good things that come our way, only the bad?

In thinking about His many blessings, you view God's work from a new perspective.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

You can't resist the will of God and receive the grace of God at the same time.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction.

The body does not end with our skin - it extends into time, into space, and into other people.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures.

Love talked about is easily turned aside, but love demonstrated is irresistible.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

The greatest motivator of change is a crystal-clear vision of what the future should look like.

Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

The moment a leader steps away from his core competencies, his effectiveness as a leader diminishes.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

I love going somewhere like Japan where you can't understand a word of the advertising - you just see it for its aesthetic beauty, without feeling that you're being sold something.