Alan Quotes

Those who recognize their innocence do not expect, receive, or accept punishment from any outside source.

Birds are sensitive to mispronunciation, even more sensitive than the French.

In my opinion and to the best of my understanding, free-will and pre-determination are two distinctly different economies that are 'operationally co-existent'".

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

Coming into a realization that there is purpose in why God has given all of us the gift of life- To promote the cause of Christ and God's Kingdom in a creative manner that expresses our uniqueness.

Why do politicians lie?Because people like being lied to.Just look at any political rally.P.S. You're great!

You can only accomplish the impossible when the God of the possible is involved".~R. Alan Woods [2013]

God is all about passion for the possible.

Unity despite diversity is exactly what defines Christianity as distinct from and antithetical to all other religious belief systems". ~R. Alan Woods [2006]

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity.

The best ad is a good product.

Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.

If you want to read about love and marriage you've got to buy two separate books.

I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Humor is my sword and my shield. It protects me. You can open a door with humor and drive a truck right through.

Youth I Stay close to the young and a little rubs off.

When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel for love is not ours to command.

No matter what Dad was always there with solid words of advice . . . "Go ask your mother."

Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

If we live we live if we die we die if we suffer we suffer if we are terrified we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die but do not seem to make a "problem" of it.

Faith is above all openness an act of trust in the unknown.

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

I have realized that the past and the future are real illusions that they exist only in the present which is what there is and all that there is.

When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.

Lazy people, the truly lazy people live on information, strategies, ideas, plans and many other criticals, simply to spend one hour of hard work and make the rest feel like a breeze.

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read 'Boneland.'

I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don't accept it with much enthusiasm either awake or in the dreams.

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

There are lots of really interesting little planets out there in the Kuiper Belt, but Pluto's the only one that's got all the cool attributes.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

I fix my grandchildren's computers.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

If you lock me in the room with a piano teacher for a year I might be able to knock out a rendition of 'Roll Out The Barrel, ' but will I ever be a concert pianist? No.