To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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