Wallis Quotes

Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal. ~ Jim Wallis

I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

I loved experiencing city life in New York. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

The principle of always seeking an alternative applies to nonviolence as well. It is this: If nonviolence is to be credible, it must answer the questions that violence purports to answer, but in a better way. ~ Jim Wallis

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go. ~ Jim Wallis

Nothing sexier than a man who knows his books. ~ Trudy Wallis

Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul and lifted the body politic to a higher plane. Take the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American civil rights movement, or Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the struggle against South African apartheid, as examples. Other times religious fervor has been employed for the worst kinds of sectarian and violent purposes. The Ku Klux Klan, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and David Koresh's Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas, are frightening examples.

Is there a reliable guide to when we are really hearing the voice of God, or just a self-interested or even quite ungodly voice in the language of heaven? I think there is. Who speaks for God? When the voice of God is invoked on behalf of those who have no voice, it is time to listen. But when the name of God is used to benefit the interests of those who are speaking, it is time to be very careful. ~ Jim Wallis

There can be nothing more baffling in a human relationship than silence, the dark loom of doubts and questions unexpressed. ~ Wallis Simpson

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power. ~ Arthur Wallis

And the way you lost your temper!" went on Wallis enthusiastically. "Oh, Mr. Allan, it was beautiful! You haven't been more than to say snarly since the accident! It was so like the way you used to throw hair-brushes
~ Margaret Widdemer

'The Tudors' was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time. ~ Annabelle Wallis

living soul for ever. ~ E.A. Wallis Budge

A billion dollars every week for Iraq, $87 billion for Iraq. We can't get $5 billion for childcare over five years in welfare reform. ~ Jim Wallis

If the president is going to use so much language of theology and the Bible, then let's use that language for a serious discussion about the war in Iraq. And that was never done. ~ Jim Wallis

It's kind of good to do things while you're young. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. ~ Wallis Simpson

Our choice is between cynicism and hope. ~ Jim Wallis

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values. ~ Jim Wallis

Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that can be a dangerous thing. Then it pushes self criticism aside. There's no reflection. ~ Jim Wallis

President Wallis was the president before the Chinese assault and continued leading the United States throughout the war," Silvia confirmed. I thought the name to myself. Wallis, Wallis, Wallis. I really wanted to remember this to tell May and Gerad when I went home, but we were learning so much, it was hard to keep it all straight. "What was their motivation for invading? Celeste?" She smiled. "Money. The Americans owed them a lot of money and couldn't pay them back." "Excellent, ~ Kiera Cass

When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money ... ~ W. Allen Wallis

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground. ~ Jim Wallis

Warmth cocooned her, and she slipped into sleep without even noticing where she was. ~ Alice Wallis-Eton

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting. ~ Velma Wallis

The efficacy of fashion turns on the self's perception of itself either as a nought or at least as lacking something, and its perception or misperception of the splendid wholeness of public figures as evidenced by even the most carelessly worn badges of their substantiality - when in truth the selves of Jackie Onassis and Wallis Simpson and John Wayne are probably more insubstantial than most. Question: ~ Walker Percy

The pain started years ago, but I'd lived with it for so long at that point that I'd accepted it as an inevitable part of me. ~ Ashley D. Wallis

Everybody loses the thing that made them. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it. ~ Arthur Wallis

All this was mine; but I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. The shared experiences, the wisdom so freely proffered by others, in words and in example, rarely swayed me for long. Came another day and the import was gone, and only the echo of the laughter remained. Experience was a revolving sun in the warmth of which I was content to bask. ~ Wallis Simpson

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster. ~ Jim Wallis

... the intercessor is not so much like a lamp in the electric circuit as a radio which is both a receiver and transmitter. The receiving aspect is often quite overlooked in the ministry of intercession. Communion with God should surely be a two-way traffic. We speak of prayer as our 'coming to the mercy seat', but when God first spoke about this to Moses He said nothing about it as a place where Moses would speak with Him, but rather as a place where He would speak with Moses (Exod. 2 5 : 22). In other words, the mercy seat was to be first a place of revelation, and then a place of intercession.
This revelation may indeed be given to the intercessor as he prays, but it will often be necessary to tune in and hear what eaven is saying that he may know how to pray. To learn how to talk to God we must first learn how to listen to God. ~ Arthur Wallis

The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

But the sun rises again when the night is past, and, as it begins a new life with renewed strenght and vigour, it became the type of the new life which the Egyptian hoped to live in the world beyond the grave. ~ E.A. Wallis Budge

Even Quinn joined in and took his turn picking obscure items, like a feather cloak that originated in far-off New Zealand. ~ Alice Wallis-Eton

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about. ~ Wallis Simpson

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

I played back every empty sigh, every night I slept alone, and saw what I never wanted to see before - a lost girl crying out to me for help. I just noticed too late. ~ Ashley D. Wallis

It may be said that the conceptions of differential quotient and
integral, which in their origin certainly go back to Archimedes,
were introduced into science by the investigations of Kepler,
Descartes, Cavalieri, Fermat and Wallis ... ~ Sophus Lie

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism. ~ Jim Wallis

I'm not gonna name names, but sometimes when reporters are talking, it gets a little boring because I don't have any jokes to tell because the questions are so serious. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions. ~ Trudy Wallis

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. ~ Velma Wallis

It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us - embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies. ~ Jim Wallis

Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said all along that those ceremonies are pagan and we can't do that. Our people insist that they are free in the gospel, free in Christ Jesus, to participate in Indian religious forms and ceremonies. - George Tinker ~ Jim Wallis

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken. ~ Wallis Simpson

The fragrance of rain mixes with the smell of old books. It is heavenly - that combination of threat and safety. ~ Trudy Wallis

But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil. What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in? ~ Jim Wallis

The crowning blessing of a true visitation of the Holy Spirit is a mighty harvest for the kingdom of God. ~ Arthur Wallis

My brothers' faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seeing the faces of their lost sons when they look at me. They will want answers, demand to know how I survived. And what do I tell them? That I huddled like a baby inside my tent while their killer beckoned me forth for one last stand? ~ Kevin Wallis

The lack of vision in public life and the emptying out of values that visionless leadership creates lead to a politics of complaint. ~ Jim Wallis

Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change. ~ Jim Wallis

I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. ~ Jim Wallis

A marriage, even one that goes awry, generates claims and needs that persist like an afterglow long after the emotional fire is burned out. ~ Wallis Simpson

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ~ Cleveland Amory

When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers. ~ Arthur Wallis

A Hymn of Praise to Osiris Un-Nefer, the great god who dwelleth in Abtu, the king of eternity, the lord of everlastingness, who tra-verseth millions of years in his existence. ~ E.A. Wallis Budge

Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

It was not uncommon to see the letters G.T.T. painted or carved on the doorways of cabins in Tennessee and other parts of the country especially in the south. It was a sure sign that the occupants had picked up and were as they said "Gone to Texas". It was a popular expression for those people who had committed crimes or owed money or just did not want to be found. ~ Michael Wallis

I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14). ~ Arthur Wallis

I feel like I'm five sometimes because I still enjoy myself. I enjoy what I do. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

The real essence of any marriage that has struggled, however unsuccessfully, towards happiness, lies in the growth of a wordless understanding that what is acceptable to one partner will be acceptable to the other. ~ Wallis Simpson

I will get up. I will get dressed. I will find the love of my life. Right after I finish this chapter. ~ Trudy Wallis

But here is the heart of the moral issue for many of us. Simply put, those around the world who have contributed least to global warming and climate change will be the most and first to be impacted by the consequences of it all. Sadly, it's an old story. We, the affluent, create the problem, and the poor pay the price for our sins. It is wrong, and it is a sin-ours. ~ Jim Wallis

But what does it mean to be on God's side? I believe it starts with focusing on the common good - not just in politics, but in all the decisions we make in our personal, family, vocational, financial, communal, and, public lives. That old but always new ethic simply says we must care for more than just ourselves or our own group. We must care for our neighbor as well, and for the health of the life we share with one another. It echoes a very basic tenet of Christianity and other faiths - love your neighbor as yourself - still the most transformational ethic in history. ~ Jim Wallis

How do we nurture both families and communities, promote a civil discourse, and approach problems with solutions and hope instead of fear and blame? ~ Jim Wallis

Matthew Henry said, "When God intends great mercy for His people, He sets them apraying." Indeed, when God wants anything accomplished in His Kingdom, He moves men to pray. God is always the initiator. All effectual prayer was moving in the heart of God before ever it began to move in the heart of man. What Kepler said as he unlocked the secrets of the heavens, could well be said by the man who prays in the Spirit: "O God, I am thinking Thy thoughts after Thee. ~ Arthur Wallis

The women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women. ~ Sheri Holman

We are prophetic interrogators. Why are so many people hungry? Why are so many people and families in our shelters? Why do we have one of six of our children poor, and one of three of these are children of color? 'Why?' is the prophetic question. ~ Jim Wallis

Um, I don't know, really [about my future.] ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

Faith reminds us that change is always possible. ~ Jim Wallis

Fuzzy and ideological definitions of terrorism just make it easier to kill people. When you know your actions will kill innocent noncombatants, that's terrorism. And it must be clearly named as unacceptable - no matter who does it (individuals, groups, or states), whatever the weapons, the expressed intentions, or political justifications. ~ Jim Wallis

Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last. ~ Jim Wallis

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers. ~ Jim Wallis

In some ways you are as sentimental as Richard,' she said. 'But you could kill us, all of us, even Stephen's brother, and feel nothing.'
I met her honey brown eyes and said, 'I'd feel something.'
'What?' she asked.
'Safer,' I said. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

You can never be too rich or too thin. ~ Wallis Simpson

Significant numbers of American evangelicals reject the way some have distorted biblical passages as their rationale for uncritical support for every policy and action of the Israeli government instead of judging all actions - of both Israelis and Palestinians - on the basis of biblical standards of justice. ~ Jim Wallis

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue. ~ Jim Wallis

As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for enjoying narratives and learning from them but also for creating them. In the same way that your mind sees an abstract pattern and resolves it into a face, your imagination sees a pattern of events and resolves it into a story. ~ Jonathan Gottschall

If the fucker tried to touch her, he'd find her pen – which she'd infused with hellfire – lodged up his rectum. He cast the object a wary look as he said, "Come on, luv, there's no call for rudeness. Let's start again. Hello Miss Wallis, I'm Silas."
"Yeah? Well, I'm bored. You can go now. ~ Suzanne Wright

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object ... ~ Wallis Simpson

Osiris became the type and symbol of resurrection among the Egyptians of all periods, because he was a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead. ~ E.A. Wallis Budge

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves. ~ Barnes Wallis

Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats. ~ Jim Wallis

Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind. ~ Wallis Simpson

In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room. ~ Madonna Ciccone

All the mighty interceding of the ages that has ever shaken the kingdom of darkness has been based upon the promises of God. ~ Arthur Wallis

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire. ~ Jim Wallis

Nothing else matters except that I have fun, and I'm still having fun. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned. ~ Arthur Wallis

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them. ~ Jim Wallis

Let us die trying. ~ Velma Wallis

It's not good to assume what your kid wants. It's not good to push them in their own way. It's not good to make them do something you wanted to do but didn't have the chance to. You should listen to what your kids are saying, and let them live, and let them be themselves. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce. ~ Quvenzhane Wallis

Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. ~ Arthur Wallis

Those whom God calls to such a ministry - and a call is essential - must be prepared for a pathway of unpopularity and misunderstanding. "You troubler of Israel" was the way Ahab addressed Elijah. ~ Arthur Wallis

Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in. ~ Jim Wallis

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. ~ Wallis Simpson

At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer. ~ Arthur Wallis

Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively! ~ Quvenzhane Wallis