The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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 first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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