Bodily 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 WILLARDOur failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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 know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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A 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?
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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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The 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.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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