“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him,… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“I have witnessed the pleasant result of producing a human who faithfully claims to be a Christian, but who on some fundamental… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the… — 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
“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
