God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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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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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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