It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
DALLAS WILLARDAs Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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