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 WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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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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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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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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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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