Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
DALLAS WILLARDThe more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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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 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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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