“It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Addiction Copy Share Image
“Why not have a God in your back pocket for when you need Him? That’s all most of them mean by 'Christian.” — Geoffrey Wood Christian 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 Americans Copy Share Image
In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act. — Geoffrey Wood Acts of charity 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 Book 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“They prefer a God of an altogether softer flavor. Nothing too extreme. Complaisance, not magnanimity. They do not think upon the “God… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Addiction 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 Christian-fiction 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… — Geoffrey Wood Average 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“You don’t change the world by telling it what to do, sitting at home, and telling it what you believe. You believe… — Geoffrey Wood Believe Copy Share Image
“So in a man’s mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
“With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that… — Geoffrey Wood Addiction Copy Share Image
“God didn’t give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn’t lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon… — 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
“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
“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other,… — 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
“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
Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that’s the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all… — Geoffrey Wood Fabric Copy Share Image
“The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle… — Geoffrey Wood American 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
“There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a… — Geoffrey Wood Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Christian-fiction 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 Business 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,… — Geoffrey Wood American 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 Christian-fiction Copy Share Image
