When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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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 don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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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.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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