The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Anand Thakur
The will is transformed by experience, not information.
DALLAS WILLARDThe sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
DALLAS WILLARDSolitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
DALLAS WILLARDBodily 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThis life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDRuthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
DALLAS WILLARDAlmost 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.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDGod may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
DALLAS WILLARDFind a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
DALLAS WILLARDWe have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDThe ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
DALLAS WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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