Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
DALLAS WILLARDKnowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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