Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDFind a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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