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 WILLARDIf we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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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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