God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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