You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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