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.
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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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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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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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