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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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