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.
DALLAS WILLARDKnowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The 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.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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