Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
DALLAS WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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