To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
DALLAS WILLARDThe transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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