What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
DALLAS WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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We 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.
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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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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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