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.
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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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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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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