The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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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 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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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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 kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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