We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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