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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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