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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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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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The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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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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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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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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