Wess Stafford Quotes
One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.
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But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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I'm covered up, but I'm still getting these comments that say I shouldn't be. But the girls who wear the bikinis, they're being told they're too revealing! Enough. It's their body, their choice.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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I've spent more time in hospitals than some fellows ever spend in church.
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My first career was as a coach and a teacher.
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When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.
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A strict master will not have understanding sons.
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One changed child eventually changes a family. A changed family will influence change in its church. Enough changed churches will transform a community. Changed communities change regions. Changed regions will in time change an entire nation.
