We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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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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