The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
DALLAS WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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.
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