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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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