Carl Jung’s penetrating diagnosis: "Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering Dallas WillardClick to Tweet Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

The more we praym the more we think to pray Dallas WillardClick to TweetFrom the book “Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

No great sophistication or information about God is required to be reached by God. Edith Schaeffer tells of a man from a Lisu tribe far out in the hills of China. There was in him a great longing for a God he did not know. One day he found on a mountain path a age…

We find the Christian life so difficult because we seek for God’s blessing while we live our own will. We should be glad to live the Christian life according to our own liking.” Andrew Murray Dallas WillardClick to TweetFrom the book “Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ (Th1nk LifeChange)” Available on…

Beyong abandonment is the contentment with the will of God: not only with his being who he is and ordaining what he has ordained in general, but with the lot has fallen to us. Dallas WillardClick to TweetFrom the book “Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ (Th1nk LifeChange)” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available…

A major service of spirituial disciplines – such as solitude (being alone with God for long periods of time), fasting (learning freedom from food and how God directly nourishes us), worship (adoration of God) and service (doing good for others with no thought for ourselves) is to cause the duplicity and malice that is buried…

James had no doubt observed the incredible power of the tongue to stir up the inclinations of the whole body and of all of its parts – our own body as well as that of others. Have you observed this? It is perhaps the last bodily part to submit to goodness and rightness. No one…

Confusion is the enemy of spiritual orientation. Rest, properly taken, gives clarity to the mind. Weariness by contrast, can make us seek gratification and energy from food or drugs, or from various illicit relationships, or from egoistic postures that are, in Paul’s words, “upon the earth.” They pull us away from reliance upon God and…

The most obvious thing we can do is to draw certain key portions of Scripture into our minds and make them a part of the permanent fixtures of our thought. This the primary discipline of the thought life. We need to know the like the back of our hand, and a good way to do…