The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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