Dallas Willard Quotes about Feelings

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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Dallas Willard

Feelings, Masters, Servant

Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.98, Tyndale House

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.

Dallas Willard

Lying, Feelings, Body

In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's in the mind - how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It's in our feelings. It's in our body.

Dallas Willard

Mistake, Thinking, Feelings

Source: renovare.org

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.

Dallas Willard

Buddhist, Issues, Feelings

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.

Dallas Willard

Feelings, Cases, Prominence

Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.94, Tyndale House