Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDPrayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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 idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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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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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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