We 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.
DALLAS WILLARDIt’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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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 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 do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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 is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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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