When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDJesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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