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 WILLARDAs we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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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.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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