We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
DALLAS WILLARDAlmost 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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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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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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