You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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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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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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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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