If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARDAs we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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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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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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