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.
DALLAS WILLARDSolitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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 cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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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 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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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