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?
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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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