Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDFind a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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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