Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Anand Thakur
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
DALLAS WILLARDFind a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
DALLAS WILLARDThe kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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 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 WILLARDSpiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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 WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDI’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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 WILLARDSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
DALLAS WILLARDTo 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.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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