We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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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.
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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 sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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