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 WILLARDThe ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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The 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.
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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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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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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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