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.
DALLAS WILLARDOne does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone 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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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.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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We 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.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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