We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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My 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.
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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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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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