He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
Booming cities, and the provinces and states in which they are located, are driving forces in economic growth today. Consequently, they constitute the new frontier in America's international economic policy.
Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing.
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
Without books, God is silent, justice dormant, natural science at a stand, philosophy lame, letters dumb, and all things involved in darkness.
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.
Anytime I float by a window, I can tell whether the outside is lit or if it's dark outside. When we're working it's just day for us with the lights on inside.
Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.
Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.
I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to digital information, but also to things that are live and dynamic and organic in some way.
When the focus becomes ‘What would Jesus do?’ instead of ‘What has Jesus done?’ the [conservative/liberal] labels no longer matter.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
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]
Although there are several 'schools of thought' relating to why God allows mental, emotional, and physical afflictions, it essentially remains a mystery" ~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
The head and the heart are not separate, but rather like intimate friends who work together sharing their experiences which enrich our lives and those of others". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]
