As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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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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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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