The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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