The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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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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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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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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