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 WILLARDThe truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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