The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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!
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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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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 greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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