“ When sex was something godlike, Lust was the profane curiosity that killed many a straying cat. Now, having removed mystery, Lust is less a long-standing, overpowering yearning, more a sudden craving… Geoffrey Wood
“ Life, liberty and the pursuit of happy hour, the long weekend, the all-inclusive island resort, the sunny beach vacation. Happiness is somewhere else, someplace with boat drinks, some secret, distant… Geoffrey Wood
“ Gratitude, not guilt, as motivation is always His starting point, thus guilt as a motivation leads nowhere. Geoffrey Wood
“ If we must tempt to Pleasure, how do we tempt to the least amount of Pleasure? Or better yet, tempt them to its opposite? But how to tempt them to pain. Geoffrey Wood
“ When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. Geoffrey Wood
“ This is why we apply the LCD Principle or Lowest Common Democracy. In short, this is social interaction based not on the best possible good, but on the least possible offense. Without saying so, the p… Geoffrey Wood
“ At the same time, they find their mind-god has played a trick on them. For mind is a part of the very system it has closed around it, and being inside, there is no reason to think any statement made b… Geoffrey Wood
“ Also, always encourage 'being good' over 'doing good.' Acts of goodness are the difficulty for us and should, of course, be avoided. 'Being good' is far less problematic, largely because it lacks defi… Geoffrey Wood
“ Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and m… Geoffrey Wood
“ Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others. Geoffrey Wood
“ In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act. Geoffrey Wood
“ The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes mor… Geoffrey Wood
“ When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone. Geoffrey Wood
“ Never let them try out this gratitude, for they would immediately discover that it supplies the first and most important component to happiness: Contentment. Geoffrey Wood
“ They forget that for a Creator to create, He must be greater than His creation, thus He must be by definition not less than emotional. Geoffrey Wood
“ When young, the humans are all Imagination because Memory is so much smaller a part of their experience, so little of them is grounded in it. As they grow older, however, Memory overtakes their Imagin… Geoffrey Wood
“ Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there. Geoffrey Wood