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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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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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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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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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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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What 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.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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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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