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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.

Dallas Willard

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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
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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Anand Thakur
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARD

Built God Habitat Live Natural
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
DALLAS WILLARD

Act Belief Yourself
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Anand Thakur
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Anand Thakur
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
DALLAS WILLARD

Basis Care Nation Understand
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARD

Hungry Morning People Rise
In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
DALLAS WILLARD

Easy Myself Obedience Way
Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

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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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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