When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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 kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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