We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
DALLAS WILLARDYour mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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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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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.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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