I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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What 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.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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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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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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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