Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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