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.
DALLAS WILLARDDisciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Your 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.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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