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 WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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