God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARDSolitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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