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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.

Dallas Willard

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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Access Allow Bondage Evil Goodness Mindset
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Hard People Right World
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The 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.
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Areas Confidence Life Ourselves Prayer Result Thinking
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Discipline, 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.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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God Search Source Strength
We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Brilliant One Liner
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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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.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Different Driver Heart Ignition Machine Ourselves Spirit

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