The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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 does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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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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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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