When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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