You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDIn solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone 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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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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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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Our 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.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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.
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