Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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If 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.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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