Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
DALLAS WILLARDWe are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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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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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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Keep eternity before the children.
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