You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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