The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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