If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed. Dallas Willard More Quotes by Dallas Willard More Quotes From Dallas Willard If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning. Dallas Willard use mind attitude We don't have to be brilliant. Dallas Willard brilliant We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization... that's all we need to do. Dallas Willard vision organization mean We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he is the most joyous being in the universe. The abundance of his love and generosity is inseparable from his infinite joy. All of the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul-exhilarating joy, God continuously experiences in all their breadth and depth and richness. Dallas Willard beautiful interesting thinking The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena. Dallas Willard keys heart world What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is. Dallas Willard finals doe children 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. Dallas Willard psychics distance light Keep eternity before the children. Dallas Willard eternity children 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. Dallas Willard spiritual christian worry A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of Dallas Willard organization play people 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. Dallas Willard reality It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self. Dallas Willard soul self heart The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose. Dallas Willard purpose book people What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions. Dallas Willard light facts thinking Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not. Dallas Willard struggle ease thinking What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down. Dallas Willard stupid profound mean 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. Dallas Willard mercy facts ideas Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get. Dallas Willard spiritual-formation spiritual matter The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. Dallas Willard pitching church-today christian To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. Dallas Willard strong lust desire