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A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
It conveys itself as simple reality and does so in such a way that it never has to justify itself. The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
The Divine Conspiracy
Dallas Willard
The secret of all life-giving relations with others lies in the fact that the primary “other” for a human being, whether he wants it or not, is always God.
Revolution of Character
Dallas Willard
Ever since returning from China, I’ve had an abiding interest in asking this question: “How is it that the West can be re-evangelized?”4 One of the reasons I’m so compelled by the life of habit is that I see habits as a way of light in an age of darkness. Cultivating a life of transcendent habits means that our ordinary ways of living should stand out in our culture, dancing like candles on a dark mantle. As Madeleine L’Engle once wrote, “We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe . . . but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it.”5
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
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