What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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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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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It 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.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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