WN Stanley Quotes

The great challenge is how to marry creativity with discipline so that discipline amplifies creativity without destroying it.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

God has ways of shaking the world when He is at work. He literally caused the ground to quake when Jesus died on the cross.

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road.

In a murderous time/the heart breaks and breaks/and lives by breaking.

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.

If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.

I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.

We have been the benefactors of our cultural heritage and the victims of our cultural narrowness.

I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

Ray Gomez is truly an unsung hero in American music.

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations.

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

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.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.

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

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

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

The unconscious creates, the ego edits.

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.

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.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

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.

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

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

Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

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.

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

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

The foundation stone of wealth accumulation is defense, and this defense should be anchored by budgeting and planning.

One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.