God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and 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 transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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