Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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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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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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 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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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