Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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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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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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