“We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“I’ve seen a disobedient client simply turn his attention toward The Adversary and ask “Are You still there?” and suddenly all was… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Most of them don’t mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He’s indulgent.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“As a rule, Americans are big on that word “choice” and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook —that prissy little virtue, Temperance— for she depends… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“First of all, don’t ever let them try to define that word “happiness” for themselves. They can’t and that’s precisely what we… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They scold their own hearts but it actuates no real change, only deepens the wound. But they can’t look away from it.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others’ sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone’s… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn’t see it, then one day, Prayer… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“A man walks into a coffee shop. As the man talks across the counter, the coffee guy makes his coffee and sets… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Chant to him: “An individual thinks for himself.” Then roll that around in his head till it means: “If I didn’t think… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than wearing a… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“The Bible is the one book we’ve most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“Everyone needs to calm down! Okay, you got a weird cookie. So what? I don’t mean to swat your ego here, buddy, but this… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“Teach them the shame that tells the lie, “I am unforgivable,” when the truth is, “I feel unforgivable, but it was out of my… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
“That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share
