Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
DALLAS WILLARDUnderstanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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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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