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 WILLARDThere 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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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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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.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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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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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.
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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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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
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