One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Anand Thakur
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
DALLAS WILLARDBusiness is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
DALLAS WILLARDIn Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
DALLAS WILLARDTo depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDPlay is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
DALLAS WILLARDThe open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
DALLAS WILLARDThe idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
DALLAS WILLARDEven professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
DALLAS WILLARDBodily 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.
DALLAS WILLARDGod may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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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