The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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