You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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?
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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