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?
DALLAS WILLARDYour 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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If 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.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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