“Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation. — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“We have deficited upon their attention in the most disorderly fashion.” — 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
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too. — 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 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
“Make good and sure your clients all call themselves Americans —proudly so, defiantly, loudly— but without any more thought about it than… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others’ sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone’s… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Indeed if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after… — 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
“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 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 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
“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
“For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same.… — Geoffrey Wood 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 Copy Share Image
“Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.” — 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
“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
