Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
DALLAS WILLARDIf 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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