Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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The 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.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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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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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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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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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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