We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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 know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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