“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
“You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to… — 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
“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 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
“There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a… — 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 Change 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
“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
“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 Character 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… — Geoffrey Wood 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 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 Copy Share Image
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. — Geoffrey Wood Eternity 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 Copy Share Image
“Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels —practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.” — 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
“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
“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
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too. — 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
“Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.” — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
