Alan Quotes

Art is personal, criticism shouldn't be.

The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men".

We can't even resist making antimatter, so what makes you think we are going to leave cloning technology untapped? (Douglas Parsley)

Love is faith in action." ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

I contend that those who Agape can only administer mercy and grace."~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.

As Christians it is not just for us to know what we believe, but why we believe it".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Long gone was the cheery welcome of the seaside hotelier, replaced by a weary nostalgia for the good old days.

Anthony imagined a time before all that - a time when people sipped Earl Grey tea on a breeze cooled veranda and looked out upon endless countryside.

It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)

Andrew Davies has said he prefers his authors dead, and I can see there is only a limited usefulness in a live one when it comes to adaptation.

At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket.

You can't fix stupid

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

But ... this will begin to make things right.

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

Experiment to discover how little you need.

Integrity is a high rock above which the stormy ocean of worldly troubles cannot rise.

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.

When we give our heartbreak to God, he fashions it into a softer and even more loving heart."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Don’t shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

There were moments when Szara suspected that many idealists drawn to Communism were, at heart, people with an appetite for clandestine life.

Aren't we lucky to be us?

He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

'Lady Wisdom' is my wife and those I reach with Truth understood are my children".~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

But only a leper shows its sins to the world.

Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining, ’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

...I found my eyes repelled by hers as if they were the like poles of a pair of magnets.

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!.

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.

There is a great independence, and a confident immunity to risk, in all drinks made out of cactus.

The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~

With a savage grin, he let out an inhuman roar of bloodlust and threw himself into an unholy orgy of blood, fangs, claws, and death.

Our culture has more to gain from inner stillness than incessant pushing.

Besides, she was alone and those who drink alone, she decided, had no need of any impediments to the pure act of consumption.

I do not think consciously of children [when writing] … I do know that children read me more intelligently than adults do.

We don't do the cleaning, the Holy Spirit does

And, yes we are much like kites when the image is one of spirituality and the winds of the Holy Spirit shaping, directing, instructing, and otherwise affecting our lives."~R. Alan Woods [2012]

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's, " adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

He wasn’t the best coder or the most introspective human being, and you must know that it takes the best coder and the most human human to produce the best droid in this age. (Douglas Parsley

Give Nature a vacuum and she will try to fill it. Give her localized pressure and she will try to disperse it. She is forever seeking a balance she can never achieve, never happy with what she's got.

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.