We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARDWe’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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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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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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 ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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