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.
DALLAS WILLARDUnderstanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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.
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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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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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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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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 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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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