We 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.
DALLAS WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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