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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.

Dallas Willard

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARD

Attitude Learning Live Mindset Open Right
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
Why 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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
DALLAS WILLARD

God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
In 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.
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Body Feeling Mindset Mistake Way
Spiritual 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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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 WILLARD

Anand Thakur
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Anand Thakur
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Anand Thakur
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Call Death Lose Time World
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
DALLAS WILLARD

God Search Source Strength

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