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.
DALLAS WILLARDIf 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.
DALLAS WILLARDFeelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
DALLAS WILLARDThe effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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 WILLARDWhen the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDThe will is transformed by experience, not information.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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 WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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 WILLARDGod’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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
DALLAS WILLARDPrayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
DALLAS WILLARDThe open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
DALLAS WILLARDMake disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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