The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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A 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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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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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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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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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