When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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There 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.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Even 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.
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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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