You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDA 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work 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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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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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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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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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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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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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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