The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
DALLAS WILLARDThe people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
DALLAS WILLARDThe first act of love is always the giving of attention.
DALLAS WILLARDTo 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.
DALLAS WILLARDFind a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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.
DALLAS WILLARDYou cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
DALLAS WILLARDThe more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
DALLAS WILLARDBodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
DALLAS WILLARDSolitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDWe know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARDAs 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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