Geoffrey Wood

Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased __acts the new trues.

When everything all in a moment comes together, surprisingly perfect, it doesn__ prove there__ a loving God; but if there is, isn__ it perfect when all in a moment, God proves how surprisingly He loves?

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.

The Americans_ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.

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

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

Teach them the shame that tells the lie, __ am unforgivable,_ when the truth is, __ feel unforgivable, but it was out of my control._ Never let them switch those round right or The Adversary will liberate them in a heartbeat, like a bird flying from a cage.

We__e spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that__ precisely how we did it __y making it lower case.

They think virtues are man-made, only exist because they exist, but if no human had ever existed, The Virtues would persist for they hold their being from the very Presence of the Adversary Himself.

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__e already got them in Hell.

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.

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__e lost, forever.

With addiction, a client__ fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana __he fear of Fear itself.

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 more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto and we want them to eat the whole bag.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it__ just better form.

Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don__ feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they__e stuck right where they started: Guilty.

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.

As a motivation __or humans, but Christians especially_ guilt is always wrong and can never move them to do anything He wants of them. Never let them realize that.