Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
DALLAS WILLARDWe live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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