Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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