As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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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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