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.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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