The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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 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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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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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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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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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