Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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