Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
DALLAS WILLARD“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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 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.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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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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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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