We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
DALLAS WILLARDGod may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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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 effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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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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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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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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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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