Dallas Willard Quotes

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

There are those who say that temptation can be barricaded beyond the door. The ones who think that stray desires can be driven out of the heart like the moneychangers from the temple. Maybe they can, if you patrol your weak points day and night, don't look, don't smell, don't dream.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

You control the doorway to your mind.

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.

The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

There is only one way by which you can achieve prosperity. It is to take charge of your mind.

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!