Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipline, 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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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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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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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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