We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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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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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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