What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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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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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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 cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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