Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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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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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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