Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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 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 WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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 WILLARDKnowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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 WILLARDThis life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
DALLAS WILLARDRuthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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 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 WILLARDOur relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARDOne does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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