The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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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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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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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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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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with 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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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