If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARDAs 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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 greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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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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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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