Woods Quotes

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]

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

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]

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

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]

I once took a poo in the woods while hunched over like an animal. It was AWESOME.

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

His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.

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

These woods are where silence has come to lick its wounds.

When you love another deeply, you gain strength. When you receive anothers deep love, you gain courage

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]

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".

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

Good and bad exist always, everywhere

Be annoyed and sin not" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation.

I am a 'Light' seeker with a 'tude'!."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Christ awareness is imperative."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens". ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.

I spent the day running through the woods like a wild animal. Being chased by you is the only thing that would have made it more romantic.

Ah, a breath of fresh air: reasonable faith!!!"~R. Alan Woods [2013]

There are three people one can never reason with: a drunk, a crazy person, and a fool.

God is The Reasonable One, therefore reason & faith are not antithetical" ~R. Alan Woods [2007]

Freedom for freedoms sake."~R. Alan Woods [2006]

Grace has not been well understood by the post-modern church let alone applied as post-moderns in our lives as a reality that Christ secured for us."~R. Alan Woods [2012]

There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain, ' Knight said.

Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.

This ain't my first rodeo!".~R. Alan Woods [1999]

The problem with the church is the church

The world and it's people are my church".~R. Alan Woods [1996]

People respond when they are taught, and that primarily by example, rather than preached at. Jesus modeled just this approach in His life."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

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

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

But the truth was stranger than an aimless road, it always was.

After twelve years of trying, I just decided to stop missing.

Because I feared I couldn't walk to Newton Centre without her, I needed to hike through desert, snow and woods alone.Childhood is a wilderness.

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

If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad—if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law—it would become my law.

I had once again proven that again alone, I was again enough.

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

My whole day has been a unicorn ride through a field of rainbows

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

A sense of desolation settled within me: a cold, slimy stone lodged under my lungs. There was nothing happy about the woods, I thought, especially at night.

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

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.