The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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If 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.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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 main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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