Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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It’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.
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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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