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.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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