That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
DALLAS WILLARDOne of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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