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.
DALLAS WILLARDA carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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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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