Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
DALLAS WILLARDKnowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Sometimes 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.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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