This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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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.
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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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