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.
DALLAS WILLARDObedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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