If God gives you a hundred bucks, you better bet He’s going to ask you what you bought.

— Geoffrey Wood

If God’s suggesting that I am expected to do good and also obligated to manufacture a genuine desire for it, this boat’s sunk, still sitting on the trailer in the driveway. A stack of things needs to happen before I desire to be good…

— Geoffrey Wood

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.

— Geoffrey Wood

If we blind them to The Adversary —decrease their desire for The Desire— while at the same time encourage them to do anything else they desire with increasing “freedom of choice,” then eventually we snuff our desire while leaving demand intact.

— Geoffrey Wood

If we can keep the Christians thinking of themselves as sinners not sons and daughters, we can make them view their relationship to The Adversary as a negative-sum-game: They fall in a hole, He pulls them out, they fall back in, etc... That way they never get anywhere; they’re always either standing next to a hole or down in it.

— 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

Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: “What-Would-Jesus-Buy”—well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.

— Geoffrey Wood

Indeed, if they ever once saw the endless supply of eternal opportunities The Adversary offers them every temporal moment of day after day of their fuddled little lives, they would stagger at the sheer industry and prodigality of His efforts. Conversely, if they ever gained a glimpse of how their ordinary actions actually affect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.

— Geoffrey Wood

In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

— Geoffrey Wood

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