A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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It 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.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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