The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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