There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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In 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.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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