The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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 greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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