One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARDTo depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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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.
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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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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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