“They view repentance as the thing they have to do in order to earn forgiveness, therefore the more difficult they make it,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“In general, Americans would walk a mile uphill in the rain to avoid pain, unless the walk could be shorter and level… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing… — 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
“God didn’t give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn’t lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.” — 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
“Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than… — 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
“No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.” — 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
“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
“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
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too. — 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the… — 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
