Kenneth L. Woodward quotes

“As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable.”
-- Kenneth L. Woodward

Source : Kenneth L. Woodward (2001). “The Book of Miracles: The Meaning of the Miracle Stories in Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam”, p.383, Simon and Schuster

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“Correlation is not causation.”
-- Kenneth L. Woodward

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“All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.”
-- Kenneth L. Woodward

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“Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.”

“As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.”

“Do you believe in miracles?”

Source : Television broadcast of Olympic hockey game, 24 Feb. 1980

“The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.”

Source : Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

“Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.”

“LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.”

Source : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.

“My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.”

Source : In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.

“Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.”

“It was ironic how love could awaken them to the wonders of the universe, while at the same time confine their attention to one another.”

“If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.”

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