Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
DALLAS WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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 the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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