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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t have to be brilliant.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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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 don’t have to be brilliant.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with 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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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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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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