Dallas Willard Quotes - Page 6

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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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  Responsibility, Looks, Followers

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• This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

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  Life Is, This Life

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• The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

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  Church, Missions, Mission Statement

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• As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

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  Source, Source Of Strength, Reach Out

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• Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth and vitality stem from what we actually do with our lives, from the habits we form, and from the character that results.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Character

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Thoughts are the place where we can and must begin to change. There the light of God first begins to move upon us through the word of Christ, and there the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.

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  Moving, Light, Way

  Dallas Willard, Gary Black, Jr. (2016). “Renewing the Christian Mind: Essays, Interviews, and Talks”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.

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  Sight, Trying, Doe

  Dallas Willard, Jan Johnson (2015). “Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.72, InterVarsity Press

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• You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things and beyond that is your work in life which isn't the same as your ministry and then beyond that is your life. And this is what God is more interested in than your work or your ministry-what He gets out of your life is the person you become. And He has plans for you, and these are long-range plans.

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  Jobs, Two, Long

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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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  Mistake, Thinking, Feelings

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• Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

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  Jesus, New Life, Touched

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.53, Harper Collins

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• Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.

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  Jesus, Father, Personality

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• The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

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  Soul, Kingdoms, Ecology

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• Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

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  People, Love One Another, Arrangements

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• Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as wildly individualistic and unbearably bright.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Intellectual

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.283, InterVarsity Press

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• Jesus offers himself as God's doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other times, to become his apprentices in eternal living. "Those who come though me will be safe," he said. "They will go in and out and find all they need. I have come into their world that they may have life, and life to the fullest.

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  Jesus, Needs, World

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• It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

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  Hurt, Religion, Hurting Someone

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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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  Spiritual, Giving, Attention

  Source: renovare.org

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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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  Thinking, Two, Kingdoms

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• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

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  Jesus, Teaching, Taken

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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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  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.

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  Jesus, Ideas, Evil

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• Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

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  Struggle, People, Identity

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• Keep eternity before the children.

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  Children, Eternity

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• What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

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  Stupid, Mean, Profound

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• Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

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  Yoke, Way, Christ

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