The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARDThe first act of love is always the giving of attention.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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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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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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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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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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Even 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.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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