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 WILLARDJesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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?
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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