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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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We 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.
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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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