We don’t have to be brilliant.
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 will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact “right” on people. It has to come from the inside. And that’s where the church should be working.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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