Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARDThe idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The 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.
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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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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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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