You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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