The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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