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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Anand Thakur
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?
DALLAS WILLARDWhat is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
DALLAS WILLARDThe key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDWe’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDGod’s address is at the end of your rope.
DALLAS WILLARDThe more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDOur 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhy 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipline, 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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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