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.
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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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?
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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