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.
DALLAS WILLARDIn 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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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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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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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 first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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 effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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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.
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