Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
DALLAS WILLARDThe effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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 more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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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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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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