Bo Dallas Quotes
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
I pity you all... Most of you will die---scratch that---ALL of you.
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.
Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.
I don't quit. If someone quits on me, that's on them, but I'm not going to quit, especially if I say I'm gonna do something.
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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.
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
Work ethic = dreams! That to me is that no one gets a free ride. You have to work for it and it doesn't get handed to you.
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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.
In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.
Why 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.
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true.
The 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.
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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.
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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.
