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.
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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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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