The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
DALLAS WILLARDIt would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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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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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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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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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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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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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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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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