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.
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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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