All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.
Dallas WillardMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
Dallas WillardWhen Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.
Dallas WillardThe truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
Dallas WillardA carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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