“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“If we can keep the Christians thinking of themselves as sinners not sons and daughters, we can make them view their relationship… — 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
“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
“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
“I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.” — 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
“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
“Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided.… — 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
