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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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.
DALLAS WILLARD
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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