We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARDEven professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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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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