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 WILLARDThe will is transformed by experience, not information.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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