Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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