The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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