God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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 greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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