To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
DALLAS WILLARDThe different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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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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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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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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