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.
Dallas WillardThe spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.
Dallas WillardEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
Dallas WillardIndividually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.
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