We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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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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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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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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