If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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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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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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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