WN Stanley Quotes
The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.
Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life.
Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.
Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.
we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look through and see the world.
If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.
Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?
The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.
If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.
To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.
The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.
Money should never change one’s values…. Making money is only a report card. It’s a way to tell how you’re doing.
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.
It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.
The achievement of happiness requires not the satisfaction of our needs but the examination and transformation of those needs.
I think that there are a few people that are power manipulators that have gotten control of things.
The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
Temptation can be defined as an inducement to do evil. Three powerful forces work together to ruin a believer's character and witness: Satan, the world system, and our own lustful "flesh" tendencies.
In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.
Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.
Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.
There is something insincere about a man or woman who repeatedly tells God how much he or she loves Him while refusing to obey Him.
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.
