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 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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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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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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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