Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
DALLAS WILLARDSometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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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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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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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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