A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
DALLAS WILLARDAs we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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