When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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