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.
DALLAS WILLARDTo allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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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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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.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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