The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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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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