Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
DALLAS WILLARDWe know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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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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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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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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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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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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