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.
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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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