The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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It’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.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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