We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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The 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.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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