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.
DALLAS WILLARDBelief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with 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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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.
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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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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