Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARDMy 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of 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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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