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 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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If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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