“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on… — 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 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
“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
“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
“Consumerism, the new black. I want my burger my way. Shaken not stirred. Sauce on the side and rare but not rare… — 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 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
“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
“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
“Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
