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.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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