Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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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 live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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