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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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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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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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