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.
DALLAS WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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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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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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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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