Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
DALLAS WILLARDGod’s address is at the end of your rope.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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 thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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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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A 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?
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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