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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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