What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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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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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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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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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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