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.
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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