WN Stanley Quotes

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Everyone sort of lives with their rulers in the past and doesn’t look at coming changes.

If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

The best education in film is to make one

Knowledge alone makes Christians haughty. Application makes us holy.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.

Guilt rarely results in positive behavior. But gratitude? Great things flow from a heart of gratitude.

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

Worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is the oil.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society. Only my society and the one making the laws are different.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

Very often when I haven't faith in my faith, I have to have faith in His faith. He makes me believe in myself and my possibilities, when I simply can't. I have to rise to His faith in me.

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

Whether in the intellectual pursuits of science or in the mystical pursuits of the spirit, the light beckons ahead, and the purpose surging in our nature responds.

When the Church listens to the Holy Spirit, it becomes fruitful. New movements are born.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

The more conscious I am of the work God has yet to do in me, the less critical I am about what he has yet to do in you

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.