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.
DALLAS WILLARDYou can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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.
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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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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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