God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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