Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
DALLAS WILLARDYou really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
-
-
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 WILLARD -
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.
DALLAS WILLARD -
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.
DALLAS WILLARD -
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 -
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.
DALLAS WILLARD -
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 WILLARD -
God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
DALLAS WILLARD -
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
DALLAS WILLARD -
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARD -
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
DALLAS WILLARD