Gregory Alan Williams quotes

  • Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  • The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

  • I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

  • I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  • There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.

  • Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.

  • Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

  • I can now say without hesitation the Marine Corps was the best foster home I ever had.

  • I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

  • There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.