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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

Dallas Willard

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
DALLAS WILLARD

Answer Believe Right True
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
DALLAS WILLARD

Choice God Life Myself Style
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARD

Character Children Final
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Machine Ourselves Road System Work

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