Geoffrey Wood quote: "They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God.” They prefer to think in terms of “God liking them.” That’s the God they’ve conjured for themselves."

They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t...
GEOFFREY WOOD

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trus...
GEOFFREY WOOD

All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, t...
GEOFFREY WOOD

The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less ...
GEOFFREY WOOD

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves an...
GEOFFREY WOOD

I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches th...
GEOFFREY WOOD

God didn’t give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn’t lead the Israelites through...
GEOFFREY WOOD

Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I don’t mean to swat your ego ...
GEOFFREY WOOD

And she was fair as is the rose in May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but...
GEOFFREY RUSH

People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Bal...
GEOFFREY RUSH

I often thought I was in the wrong business. I was pretty seriously thinking of tossing it in before...
GEOFFREY RUSH

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader.
GEOFFREY RUSH

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - c...
GEOFFREY RUSH

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personal...
GEOFFREY RUSH

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my ...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lan...
GEOFFREY RUSH

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who re...
GEOFFREY RUSH

This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children,...
GEOFFREY RUSH

My kids started school, so having a strong base in Melbourne has been a key priority. I'm not da...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four...
GEOFFREY RUSH

I like roles that are on the extreme ends of the spectrum, and there's special appeal in explori...
GEOFFREY RUSH

But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice ...
GEOFFREY RUSH

I asked, 'What is this guy?' They said, he's part-fish, part-bird, maybe a bit of lizard...
GEOFFREY RUSH

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a...
GEOFFREY RUSH

I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.
GEOFFREY RUSH

My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill.
GEOFFREY RUSH

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific,...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think t...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forti...
GEOFFREY RUSH

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel mo...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.
GEOFFREY RUSH

When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to ...
GEOFFREY CANADA

Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me, To maken vertu of necessite, And take it weel, that we ma...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Since I had cancer I've realised that every day is a bonus.
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT

Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...]<...
GEOFFREY WOLFF

Music is the vernacular of the human soul.
GEOFFREY LATHAM

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England ...
GEOFFREY COTTRELL

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make ...
GEOFFREY BEENE

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yo...
GEOFFREY GABERINO

If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
GEOFFREY HICKSON

Simple is better.
GEOFFREY MOMPREMIER

So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

His studie was but litel on the Bible.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

She lovede Right fro the firste sighte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. [Fr., Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pr...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

That men by reason will it calle may The daisie or elles the eye of day The emperice, and flou...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The thrustelcok made eek hir lay, The wode dove upon the spray She sang ful loude and cleere.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily. This wol be done a...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Frieth in his own grease.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The guilty think all talk is of themselves
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

It is nought good a sleeping hound wake.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The false lapwynge, full of trecherye.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Yet in oure asshen olde is fyr yreke.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Many a smale maketh a grate.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Of harmes two the less is for to chose.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

In jalousie I rede eek thou hym bynde And thou shalt make him couche as doeth a quaille.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Patience is a conquering virtue.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Good food ends with good talk.
GEOFFREY NEIGHOR

There's never a new fashion but it's old.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded educat...
GEOFFREY CANADA

Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
GEOFFREY CANADA

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Time and tide wait for no man.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent househ...
GEOFFREY CANADA

Design is an unknown.
GEOFFREY BEENE

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development ...
GEOFFREY CANADA

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be ...
GEOFFREY FISHER

I begin my day online and end my day online. I like to prepare myself for the next day and have a se...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying ...
GEOFFREY CANADA

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Cities tolerate crazy people. Companies don't.
GEOFFREY WEST

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic acto...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden d...
GEOFFREY RUSH

I've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports ...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second m...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf...
GEOFFREY RUSH

For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-...
GEOFFREY FISHER

But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or loo...
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT

Cities are the crucible of civilization.
GEOFFREY WEST

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, w...
GEOFFREY HOUSEHOLD

The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating mur...
GEOFFREY FISHER

Good dental care doesn't make you a good student, but if your tooth hurts, it's hard to be a...
GEOFFREY CANADA

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to d...
GEOFFREY BEENE

He was as fresh as is the month of May.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Make a virtue of necessity.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our ...
GEOFFREY NEIGHOR

And for to se, and eek for to be seye.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this, A man to hav bent in...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne, Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

We form cities in order to enhance interaction, to facilitate growth, wealth creation, ideas, innova...
GEOFFREY WEST

His condition was that his bone marrow had not produced platelets and red cells. It did produce some...
GEOFFREY BRAUNSBERG

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and e...
GEOFFREY WEST

It seems to me the vultures have stopped circling.
GEOFFREY BECKER

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to co...
GEOFFREY CANADA

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm out...
GEOFFREY CANADA

He was persuaded that, for Puritans, there could only be one King, now and for ever,
GEOFFREY ROBERTSON

I use the confit principle for chicken thighs. I season them with herbs and garlic, let them marinat...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
GEOFFREY RUSH

I think the U.S. was so insular in the 1990s, and I don't know if it was 9/11, but there was somethi...
GEOFFREY GILMORE

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to...
GEOFFREY HOLDER

It started with an apron, and then the bib. And it was like a piece of clothing that protected what ...
GEOFFREY BEENE

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wif...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

People can die of mere imagination.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

We little know the things for which we pray
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

What turns an honest, good-looking guy like you into a theif?"
Scott couldn't help but smirk. ...
GEOFFREY KNIGHT

They have already decided to get beyond where they left off and move on to the substantive component...
GEOFFREY KEMP

Kids who are poor often have families that have not really been kept informed about... how important...
GEOFFREY CANADA

How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

People say that age is just a state of mind. I say its more about the state of your body.
GEOFFREY PARFITT

If you cook chopped tomatoes with all of their juices, it takes a long time for the sauce to reach t...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Ev...
GEOFFREY CANADA

I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glas...
GEOFFREY BOYCOTT

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbe...
GEOFFREY CANADA

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

It is not all gold that glareth
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Murder will out, this my conclusion
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Wall Street is sliding and Mexico is taking it on the chin as usual.
GEOFFREY DENNIS

With the biggest dissident shareholders in favor of the new deal, we expect the transaction to be co...
GEOFFREY PORGES

[Accessories are often incorporated into the clothing, rather than using much jewelry.] I have some ...
GEOFFREY BEENE

Some of my favorite things are the white jackets with the black zippers, that just zip and that's it...
GEOFFREY BEENE

Robert was nothing less than mocked.
GEOFFREY FIEGER

doctors & druggists wash each other's hands
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from...
GEOFFREY CANADA

Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything ...
GEOFFREY WEST

These orbs are the destinations of the real Star Trek. And they can be explored with excellent camer...
GEOFFREY MARCY

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactl...
GEOFFREY CANADA

She's a tough campaigner. But the real problem for her is getting out from underneath all these ques...
GEOFFREY BECKER

[Initial information gathered from local residents indicates the soldiers] may have been involved in...
GEOFFREY HOON

It's important that we make an effort to bridge this gap.
GEOFFREY HOON

We know roughly where these people are. ... At the moment I would say there is a chance they can be ...
GEOFFREY HOON

I know there have been media reports that bombs and missiles have fallen near civilian areas. Detona...
GEOFFREY HOON

The targets included terrorist training camps, military airfields and air defense sites,
GEOFFREY HOON

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer ...
GEOFFREY CANADA

The '80s and '90s residential building spree ... has done a real disservice to the once charming nei...
GEOFFREY LEWIS

Cities are obvious metaphors for life. We call roads 'arteries' and so forth.
GEOFFREY WEST

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. ...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

I run into trees all the time when I go sledding
GEOFFREY ROGERS

I love hotel rooms, so I take pictures of the room and the way out and the lobby, the food and drink...
GEOFFREY ZAKARIAN

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole communit...
GEOFFREY CANADA

Love is blind.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

She loved right from the first sight
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest cor...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Their engineers converted my prototype into a saleable product and got me through the UL approval,
GEOFFREY WINTERS

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, thoug...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Love is blynde.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Experience, though non auctoritee Were in this world, is right ynough to me To speke of wo tha...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere; And out of ol...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

It is not good a sleping hound to wake.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Habit maketh no monke, ne wearing of guilt spurs maketh no knight.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Nowher so besy a man as he ther was, And yet he semed bisier than he was.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by...
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

He koude songes make and well endite.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

And broughte of mighty ale a large quart.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

I had a total of 38 wigs, for a start. There were prosthetics, too - silicone pieces which go on the...
GEOFFREY RUSH

Cities are just a physical manifestation of your interactions, our interactions, and the clustering ...
GEOFFREY WEST

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity
GEOFFREY CHAUCER

In the world of psychiatry today, there is no doctor ... who could say that an 11-year-old, with a 6...
GEOFFREY FIEGER

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of free...
GEOFFREY FISHER

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is ...
GEOFFREY FISHER

Once you start, there is no end to who is to go in and who is to be left out.
GEOFFREY FISHER

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely
GEOFFREY FISHER

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and P...
GEOFFREY FISHER

I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to ...
GEOFFREY FISHER

There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite fran...
GEOFFREY FISHER

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be ...
GEOFFREY FISHER

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.
GEOFFREY FISHER

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feeling...
GEOFFREY FISHER

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
GEOFFREY FISHER

They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God.” They prefer to think in terms of “God liking them.” That’s the God they’ve conjured for themselves.

Geoffrey Wood

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