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“And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they鈥檝e lost, forever.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: 鈥淲hat-Would-Jesus-Buy鈥濃€攚ell now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Faith is an act whereby they learn their God.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“They want explanation, not faith; God gives them faith as the explanation.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook 鈥攖hat prissy little virtue, Temperance鈥� for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Once a man discovers that his obedience is primarily for others鈥� sake, that every miracle that ever amazed happened because of someone鈥檚 obedience somewhere, that properly understood, his obedience prepares the way for His visitation, well, then we run up against the appalling result of attentive servants gladly going about His bidding without the slightest hesitation. Indeed, in the worse cases, they run where He says run with reckless abandon.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional 鈥攖he more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.”
― 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

“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 by some part concerning the whole has any validity. Mind was caused by the material universe, if mind is right. But only the greater can accurately define the lesser, never the other way round, so if mind is right, mind would never know.”
― 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 moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that鈥檚 the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn鈥檛 change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we鈥檝e already got them in Hell.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“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 of the appetite. Less quest, more impulse buy.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased 鈥攆acts the new trues.”
― 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

“Now they feel not only known and still loved, but also loved because they are known.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“The eye is to light as the soul is to God.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Chant to him: 鈥淎n individual thinks for himself.鈥� Then roll that around in his head till it means: 鈥淚f I didn鈥檛 think of it, it has no bearing on my life.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Faith is where they learn about their God; but Prayer is where they explore Him.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about 鈥渒nowing God,鈥� they mean more than, 鈥淚 understand what you鈥檙e saying about God,鈥� but also, 鈥淚t fits my experience of Him.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.”
― 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 Imagination, outweighs it. But when they pray with ever increasing confidence, they see with an ever-increasing and youthful Imagination and such burgeoning of possibility causes even their Memory to be lightened and redeemed. The scales fall from their eyes and they wait on their Father with the same childlike wonder that watches a sunrise to see what might happen this time.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“All this has been happening around them all the days of their lives though they couldn鈥檛 see it, then one day, Prayer removes the veil and everything changes. Think of it this way: Picture a man whistling a tune, when out of nowhere, first a harmony joins, then another, and then suddenly he is taken up into a whirlwind of music, countless instruments playing soaring complexities that the man鈥檚 whistling is, indeed, a part of, but now he begins to see how small a part; the longer he listens, he realizes that his is not the melody and where he had thought he was whistling alone, the truth had always been the music playing, though never before that moment heard, and now what had been noise becomes symphony.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“So in a man鈥檚 mind, he appraises, negotiates, defines, delineates, weighs the information, and that includes God. As you can see, this is a relationship of management, not trust. You don鈥檛 trust things you can manage, you manage them. And so, God as information is managed and no relationship of trust is fostered.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.”
― Geoffrey Wood

“Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it 鈥擧is ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.”
― Geoffrey Wood