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.
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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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