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.
DALLAS WILLARDRelated Topics
Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipline, 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.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDPlay is the creation of value that is not necessary.
DALLAS WILLARDThe hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
DALLAS WILLARDFasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
DALLAS WILLARDBodily 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.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
DALLAS WILLARDThe will is transformed by experience, not information.
DALLAS WILLARDAt the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
DALLAS WILLARDYou can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDMake disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
DALLAS WILLARDSpiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
DALLAS WILLARD