“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
DALLAS WILLARDWe have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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