Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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