To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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