A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
DALLAS WILLARDEveryone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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 transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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.
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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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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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