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.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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 idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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