Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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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.
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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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