There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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 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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against 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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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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