The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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