The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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 kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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