The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDYou can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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