My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
DALLAS WILLARDA leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify 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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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