Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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