Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDYou can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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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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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.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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