Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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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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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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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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