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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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