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.
DALLAS WILLARDIn solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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What 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.
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The 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.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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