There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
DALLAS WILLARDTwo ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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