Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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