The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
DALLAS WILLARDWe cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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The 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.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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