We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Anand Thakur
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
DALLAS WILLARDBodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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 WILLARDKingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
DALLAS WILLARDPlay is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDEven professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t have to be brilliant.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
DALLAS WILLARDThe key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
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 WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDThe truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDPrayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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