Alan Quotes

The Reality of the Creator God of Christianity blatantly reveals itself in His majestic handy-work."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

God is only as far as we imagine Him to be. It's our fleshly desire not to run to Him that is ultimately our downfall.

Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures

How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.

He knew...there was no redemption for the damned.

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

After years of operating in a top-down manner that emphasizes control and conformance, organizations are rife with obstacles to bottom-up ideas that front-line staff are forced to overcome.

Don't get me wrong, I like NASCAR and shopping at Nordstrom's, but discipleship is intrinsic as a lifestyle."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Are you like, a crazy person?I’m quite sure they will say so.

Love is love, wherever you may find it—even when it's covered in feathers.

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

Alan McCluskey“Despair is an ugly thing when it refuses hope.

Control what you can, but flow with what you can’t.

The experience of history should lead us to hope and strive to make the world better, not to despair and resign ourselves to fate.

Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.

There are sins much more serious than socio-pathologies which really are mental illnesses, whereas self-righteousness is an illness of the soul.

Cheating is an health issue.

My conscious mind must have its roots and origins in the most unfathomable depths of being, yet it feels as if it lived all by itself in this tight little skull.

It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity.

The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.

Beware the soft-spoken when secrets are kept, for they hear what the thunderers do not.

When you reframe problems as projects or opportunities, they will cease to bother you and begin to stimulate you.

You cannot create the life you need unless you pass through the death of the life you no longer want … it's just not possible. Deconstruction always comes before reconstruction.

In true love, one has no reservations.True love is unquestionable, indisputable and totally recognizable.

Time is life. It is irreversible and irreplaceable. To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it.

The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other".R. Alan Woods [2012]

People are lot like peanuts...It's not what's on the outside that matters, and that damn shell just gets shucked into the trash anyhow.

Since the Devil is in the details...I don't think I'll elaborate.

When it's all been said and done...There's hell of a lot more said, than done.

Instead of hopping around like a wild in'jun on fire, try counting from 10 backwards while hopping on one foot".

Sharks to not eat Chinese people because they get hungry thirty minutes later".

How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.

To us post-moderns, empathy is a stranger in a strange land". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

None of us are getting out of here alive".

Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead, ” the woman said. “I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.

In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.

We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

As the High Priestess looked down upon the child, she was struck by her holy perfection. She was a tiny person in miniature, and her beautiful eyes, little hands, and long eyelashes were sublime.

Old Korean adage, "Even jade has flaws." Or, in other words: Nothing in life is ever perfect.

No one is perfect and perfectly holy but God alone".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

And we have the same colour eyes. When I look into his, I feel I'm looking into myself.

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.

Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.

Wise parents do not criticize each other in front of their children or their friends. Nor do they talk negatively about their children when others are present. That is disloyalty.