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.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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