Posted in Committment, Cross, Dallas Willard, Quotes on October 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
“Those who are not genuinely convinced that the only real bargain in life is surrendering ourselves to Jesus and his cause, abandoning all that we love to him and for him, cannot learn the other lessons Jesus has to teach us…
Not that he will not let us, but that we simply cannot succeed.
If I tell you that you cannot drive an automobile unless you can see, I am not saying I will not let you, but that you cannot succeed even if I do.”1
– Dallas Willard
1 – Renovation of the Heart, pg 71
Posted in Dallas Willard, Human Body, Quotes on October 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. – 1st Corinthians 6:13b-14
“THE HUMAN BODY is … created for spiritual life in the kingdom of God and to be honored—indeed, glorified—in that context. But when taken out of that context and made the central focus of human experience and endeavor, it is betrayed—robbed of the spiritual resources meant to sustain its life and proper functioning—and in turn it then betrays those who center their life on it.
The sense of this betrayal is what lies at the heart of youth worship in Western societies.
It also is the source of the fear, shame, disgust, and even the anger directed at fat, old age (or just aging), and death and dying that dominate our culture.
An outlook focused entirely on the body finds the body’s failure and cessation to be, of course, the ultimate insult from which there is no recovery.
You have to understand this if you want to understand Western life and culture” – Dallas Willard1
– fritz
1 – Renovation of the Heart, NavPress, copyright 1992, page 184
Posted in Dallas Willard, Quotes on September 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Multitudes of people have come to a full knowledge of God because in a moment of complete hopelessness they prayed “The Atheist’s Prayer” or something like it: “O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul.” When that is the true cry of the heart, of the inmost spirit of the individual, who has no longer any hope other than God, God hears and responds without fail.
– Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, pg 161
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