Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
DALLAS WILLARDIn one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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