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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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 key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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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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