Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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