God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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 live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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