What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDGod’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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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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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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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In 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.
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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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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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