“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
“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
“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
“As a motivation —for humans, but Christians especially— guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“The more we train a man to labor, deliberate, dictate and demand over the inconsequential, the less capable his mind becomes of… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental… — 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
“Remember, this type doesn’t really believe He’ll forgive them, by repenting they are trying to earn what they do not think, in… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“That dusty hill we can scarcely look upon and then only with pain, The Adversary, also with pain, does and must ever… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased —facts the new trues.” — 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
“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
“And I’m glad to see that all three clients are male. Not that the females can’t be corrupted, I’ve just always found… — 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
“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together.… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Even if their guilt actually does produce a good action, it will be the saddest good action you’ll ever see, and it… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Teach them the shame that tells the lie, “I am unforgivable,” when the truth is, “I feel unforgivable, but it was out… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“But as I say, if you look to the state of their souls you’ll find the situation nowhere near as grave as… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
