Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDIt is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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