God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARDBodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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 are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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