“Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Children Copy Share Image
“If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Choice 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 Addiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Children 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn’t prove there’s a loving God; but if there is, isn’t… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian 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 Belief 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 Adversary 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 Addiction 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 Abandon 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 Change Copy Share Image
“Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world… — Geoffrey Wood God trust 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 Christian-fiction 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 Bible Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“Most of them don’t mind too much the idea of a God existing somewhere, just so long as He’s indulgent.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“I don’t even like the phrase ‘opportunity to sin’ because it implies the opportunity to obey.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.” — Geoffrey Wood American 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. — Geoffrey Wood Eternity Copy Share Image
“They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too. — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
