A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
DALLAS WILLARDWe cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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 kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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