Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
DALLAS WILLARDThe open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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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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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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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 Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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