Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
DALLAS WILLARDAs Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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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 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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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