Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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 built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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 we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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