If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARDFasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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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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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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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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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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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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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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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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We’re not here to prove we’re right; we’re here to help people.
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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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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You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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