The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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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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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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