The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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In 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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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