God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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 is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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