Dallas Willard Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.

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  People, Priorities, Wish

• Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

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  Mind, Desire, Shameless

• When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

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  Mind, Desire, Turns

• To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

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  Strong, Lust, Desire

• Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

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  Buddhist, Issues, Feelings

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