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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Dallas Willard

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Hard People Right World
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARD

Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Goodness Kind People Thinking
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
Keep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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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Call Death Lose Time World
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Machine Ourselves Road System Work
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

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