My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t have to be brilliant.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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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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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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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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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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.
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