Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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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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