God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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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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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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