Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDOne does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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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.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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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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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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