Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
DALLAS WILLARDUnderstanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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