Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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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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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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