I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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