Keep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDThe ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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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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