It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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To 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.
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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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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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