“Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.” — Geoffrey Wood Attention Copy Share Image
“Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Americans Copy Share Image
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act. — Geoffrey Wood Acts of charity 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 Christian-fiction 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 Character 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 Christian 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 Addiction Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: “What-Would-Jesus-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.” — Geoffrey Wood America Copy Share Image
“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 American 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 Business Copy Share Image
“The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle… — Geoffrey Wood American Copy Share Image
Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all… — Geoffrey Wood Fabric Copy Share Image
“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 Automatic Copy Share Image
“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 Bible 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 Childlike wonder Copy Share Image
“Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into… — Geoffrey Wood Addiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 American 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation. — Geoffrey Wood Explanation Copy Share Image