To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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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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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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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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 is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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