As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with 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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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