Geoffrey Wood famous quotes

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Reality #Mad #Gone

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Imagination #Mind #Eternity

They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Giving #Want #Explanation

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn’t change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Wish #Noise #Fabric

In general, it’s not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they’re looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc…
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Shopping #Numbness #Choices

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Charity #Divine #Acts Of Charity

In general, it's not too hard to corrupt an American, mostly a matter of supply to their demand. Supply should be variegated to encourage the Illusion of Choice. Other than that they're looking for numbness, so be ready to sedate. Drugs, booze, television, shopping, etc.
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Numbness #Shopping #Choices

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.
-- Geoffrey Wood

#Suffering Of Others #Matter #Heal

Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

I am not mad. I am eccentric perhaps--at least certain people say so; but as regards my profession. I am very much as one says, 'all there.

The bullet is a mad thing, only the bayonet knows what it is about.

What makes my father different is the fact that he calls himself mad.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

The aura of uninvincibility has gone, if there is such a word.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.