Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Anand Thakur
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDAt the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t have to be brilliant.
DALLAS WILLARDWe live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are becoming who we will be-forever.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
DALLAS WILLARDThe aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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 WILLARDI’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
DALLAS WILLARDKnowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
DALLAS WILLARDThe union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
DALLAS WILLARDThe key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARDIt 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.
DALLAS WILLARDFasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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