I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about 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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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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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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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