Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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