“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
DALLAS WILLARDSolitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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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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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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