It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
DALLAS WILLARD
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARD
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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