If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARDI’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone 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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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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