When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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