{"quotes":[{"text":"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 effect and shape things not only under time but without, the very vast weight of that would almost certainly end in their becoming humble.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","eternal","grimrack","humble","opportunities","ordinary","religion"],"id":2465,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"Life, liberty and the pursuit of gratitude, now that would’ve worked. They would have been readily led to contentment, which would’ve then better lead them on to happiness.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","contentment","gratitude","grimrack","happiness","liberty","life","pursuit","religion"],"id":2578,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["charity","christian-fiction","christianity","divine","grimrack","religion"],"id":3112,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"But here I’d like to add to what the Tempter’s Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing Present that they cannot escape. We want to disable their Present so that they cannot use it to look Heavenward.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","depression","grimrack","religion"],"id":15863,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by making it lower case.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","grimrack","religion","virtue"],"id":17452,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"And keep them thinking in terms of 'being good' as this is not an end so much as a means to something else —happiness, respect, self-esteem, etc… And whatever their true end is, take it away, and so goes their goodness.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","good","goodness","grimrack","happiness","religion","self-esteem"],"id":23789,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"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.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","goodness","grimrack","religion","virtue"],"id":30625,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","grace","grimrack","redeemed","religion"],"id":35484,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"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.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","creator","emotional","god","grimrack","religion"],"id":43284,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"},{"text":"For example, your man might think: I don’t steal. Maybe on my taxes, everyone does that, but not in the way I heard so and so stole from his company. See? Those men for whose opinion he cares approve of embezzlement in one area, not the other. He uses them to maintain a claim on goodness while at the same time stealing.","author":"Geoffrey Wood","tags":["christian-fiction","christianity","goodness","grimrack","religion","steal"],"id":65560,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Wood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}