Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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?
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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