The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDA leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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 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 opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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