The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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When 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.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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