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.
DALLAS WILLARDTo 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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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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