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.
DALLAS WILLARDSolitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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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 Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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