God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDTo depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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