God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
DALLAS WILLARDThe kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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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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