“Finally, slowly, drippingly, degrade the term Choice down to its most meager means: The red car not the black one. The 9:25… — 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
“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
“No earthly act escapes its eternal echoes, echoes more substantial than the acts themselves.” — 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
“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
“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
“I say “illusion” of choice because, in many cases, the nature of their choices hardly reaches the level of will, but of… — 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
“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
“And recently, we installed another word in its place which, to their minds, has a wholly positive connotation. We say ‘Gluttony’. They… — 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
“Make them imagine repentance more like an appearance in court before a cranky old judge, less like a child knocking on his… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to… — Geoffrey Wood 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“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 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 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 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.” — 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 goodness in… — 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 of my… — 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, the phrase… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
