The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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