Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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