Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
DALLAS WILLARDKnowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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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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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
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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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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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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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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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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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