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.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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