We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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