Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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 people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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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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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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