Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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