Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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