Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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 hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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