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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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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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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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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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