One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Bodily 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.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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.
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