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A. N. Wilson

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A. N. Wilson
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: January 1
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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.
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Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
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We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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We tell ourselves that God is dead, when what we mean is that God is Dad, and we wish him dead.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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