Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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