Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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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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