Alan Quotes

Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something.

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

Greed applied is prosperity realized". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

God has certainly not called us to throw our brains out the window as an appropriate response to His Grace".R. Alan Woods [2012]

We are no longer under the 'Law', but rather the Grace of God in Christ."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

We are all sinners who have been saved by Grace. We have not been saved from sinning, but we have been redeemed despite it".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all

The mystery of Evil and its origin & purposes".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Evil does not fight against evil, rather it struggles against Good. Where as, Good does not struggle against evil, rather it overwhelmingly defeats it".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Well did you call the hypothetical hardware store and buy a theoretical chainsaw?-- Pam to Jessica, True Blood

My whole life changed after I drowned and died in the flood.

As the helpless vampire watched the transformation, it started screaming. It was still screaming when his rows of razor sharp teeth sank into its throat.

She leaned forward and whispered sensuously in his ear, 'I am Lilith and you are mine now - forever.

He screamed in agony as large black wings erupted from his back - each had four large talons on it.

Harley's eyes widened in horror, and a low moan of fear escaped his mouth. The back alley was filled with a vision from Hell.

To write a novel is to dream while awake, then express the dream to the reader in an absorbing way. The road leading from the writer's inner world to the readers' is paved with prose.

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they’re aware of it. I choose the second group.

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take.

A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.

Quit making believe you don’t know.You do know. Act on it.

God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'."~R. Alan Woods [1998]

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

Anger is the ego’s way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid.

Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

…the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

[A]ll mental disorders are in some sense passionate convictions about the situation of the self in the world.

So how does God affect justice in this life/economy/reality? A lightening bolt, an angel of death, or by the hand of a human being?"~R. Alan Woods [2012]

He was asking for memories, too young himself to know that memories were only memories of memories.

Reason and Faith are no more antithetical than the mind and the heart, for neither one exists or has meaning without the other". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

God has given all of us both the mind and the heart. And He fully expects us to use them

God is great, God is faithful".~R. Alan Woods [2103]

...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.

The desert became grim, dark and foreboding. A silence of death lay over the land, and it seemed as though the very stars held their breath and twinkled no more.

So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.

Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

Finally, both of them fell asleep together with their limbs entwined in the eternal position of a lover's embrace.

Surround yourself with people who are positive and who guard against negative talk.

You have found love in your heart - and out of small changes come great things.

Character primarily is honesty with God, ones-self, and others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Character is what we do when no one else is watching"~R. Alan Woods [2012]

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization’s improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".

Success is less about getting good, and more about letting good.

In the sense of Lewis, I am a moderately 'good man'".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Good and bad exist always, everywhere

Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.