When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARDThe first act of love is always the giving of attention.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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