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Dallas Willard Inspirational Quotes (146)

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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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In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.
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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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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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Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
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God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.
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If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, What kind of person am I becoming? and What is my role in that? and so on.
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Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
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Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of
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If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
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Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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