We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
DALLAS WILLARDHuman 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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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