Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARDA leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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