Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
DALLAS WILLARDIn solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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It 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.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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.
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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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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Even 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.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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