The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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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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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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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 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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Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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