What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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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.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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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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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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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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