When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Anand Thakur
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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 WILLARDGrace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe first act of love is always the giving of attention.
DALLAS WILLARDYour 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.
DALLAS WILLARDOf course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARDAs 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.
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.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDOne does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
DALLAS WILLARDThe union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
DALLAS WILLARDThe effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
DALLAS WILLARDHuman beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
DALLAS WILLARDThe Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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