The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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