I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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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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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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