Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDGod may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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