We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Anand Thakur
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARDIf 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.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDIn Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
DALLAS WILLARDMy central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
DALLAS WILLARDThe kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
DALLAS WILLARDThe first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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.
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.
DALLAS WILLARDBelief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
DALLAS WILLARDPlay is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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