The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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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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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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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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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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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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