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 WILLARDWe don’t have to be brilliant.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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