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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.

Dallas Willard

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Clever God Thinking Way
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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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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Easy Myself Obedience Way
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Alone Haste Loneliness Solitude
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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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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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Form Issues Management
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Education Form Oneself Spiritual
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Change Himself Ideas Image Move Spirituality
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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Call Death Lose Time World
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God Human Rebel Spiritual Understand Wrong
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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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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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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