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.
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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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