Geoffrey Wood

“Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“The eye is to light as the soul is to God.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Faith is an act whereby they learn their God.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level…

— Geoffrey Wood

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

— Geoffrey Wood

“We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by…

— Geoffrey Wood

“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing…

— Geoffrey Wood

“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Why not have a God in your back pocket for when you need Him? That’s all most of them mean by 'Christian.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They…

— Geoffrey Wood

“It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the…

— Geoffrey Wood

“There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a…

— Geoffrey Wood

“If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do…

— Geoffrey Wood

“The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed,…

— Geoffrey Wood

“For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I…

— Geoffrey Wood

“If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by…

— Geoffrey Wood

“If we can keep the Christians thinking of themselves as sinners not sons and daughters, we can make them view their relationship…

— Geoffrey Wood

“But here I’d like to add to what the Tempter’s Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they…

— Geoffrey Wood

“They all want to be happy. They all think they should be happy. And they’re quick to trot out their most cherished…

— Geoffrey Wood

“When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them…

— Geoffrey Wood

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

— Geoffrey Wood

“Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare…

— Geoffrey Wood

“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into…

— Geoffrey Wood

“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

“This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the…

— Geoffrey Wood

“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

“And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind…

— Geoffrey Wood

“A man walks into a coffee shop. As the man talks across the counter, the coffee guy makes his coffee and sets…

— Geoffrey Wood

“For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same.…

— Geoffrey Wood

“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

“Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.”

— Geoffrey Wood

“They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!”

— Geoffrey Wood

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

— Geoffrey Wood