Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARDIt would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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