The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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