It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.
Dallas WillardAll of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.
Dallas WillardHearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
Dallas WillardActions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with
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