Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
DALLAS WILLARDOur failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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