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Dallas Willard

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Follow God Love Responsibility Rule Satisfaction Sin Start
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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Accomplishment Achievement God Life Person Yourself
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Character Form God Production
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Children Parents Relationship Separate
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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Definition Human Love Thinking
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Abundance Obedience One Liner
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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Act Belief Yourself
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Believe Live Opposite Yourself
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God Human Live Offend Pride Universe
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Basis Care Nation Understand
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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Conversation Engagement God Life People Practice Relationship Spiritual
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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Human Life Problem Solution
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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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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Goodness Kind People Thinking
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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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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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Care Cultivation Heart Help Stand Talk Transformation Willing
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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Choice God Life Myself Style
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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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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