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 WILLARDIt 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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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 invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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