The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDWe know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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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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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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