What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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