There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
DALLAS WILLARDEvery church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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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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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 effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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 open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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