Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARD
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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