“I shouldn’t need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn’t think to stop it?” BookReligionReadingChristianityChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“Joy is that paradox where a man so trusts, is so enraptured, as to be caught up and lost in the other, while at the same time, being utterly known by the other, thus utterly himself.” JoyReligionChristianityParadoxChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“Bondage is when the mind longs for something, grieves about something, rejects something, holds on to something, is pleased about something or displeased about something.” SpiritualityGitaStoicismismAshtavakra Author:Ashtavakra
“In Joy, to lose one’s life is to gain it, and Joy never loses an opportunity to be lost in the other.” JoyReligionChristianityChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives —gratitude.” HappinessReligionChristianityGratitudeEntitlementChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“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.” ReligionChristianityDepressionChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“And I’m glad to see that all three clients are male. Not that the females can’t be corrupted, I’ve just always found the males more amenable to temptation. The males have always had all the power, so that does much to explain it. As they say: Easy pickings.” ReligionChristianityFemaleTemptationChristian FictionMaleGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“First of all, don’t ever let them try to define that word “happiness” for themselves. They can’t and that’s precisely what we never want them to realize. Keep it a vague bright mist hovering about their heads. Locate it securely at the end of implausible rainbows. Hide it snugly in some corner of their thoughts they rarely visit.” HappinessReligionChristianityChristian FictionGrimrackRainbows Author: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.” HappinessReligionChristianityGratitudeContentmentChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood
“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.” LifeHappinessReligionLibertyChristianityGratitudePursuitContentmentChristian FictionGrimrack Author:Geoffrey Wood