Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Anand Thakur
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDGod’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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDI’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
DALLAS WILLARDThe sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
DALLAS WILLARDGod does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDThe open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
DALLAS WILLARDHuman beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
DALLAS WILLARDA carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDIt would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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