Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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