One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARDYour 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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We 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.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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As 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.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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