Dallas Willard

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

— Dallas Willard

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

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

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We are becoming who we will be-forever.

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Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

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God does not 'love' us without liking us...

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“People who love one another can be silent together.”12”

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“we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.”

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The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

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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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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

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Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

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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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Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.

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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

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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…

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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…

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“And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just…

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God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer…

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In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset…

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“Indeed, for anyone who has a genuine knowledge of God, praise is the only appropriate attitude in which to live. It is…

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The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the…

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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.

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All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with…

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“But spirituality in many Christian circles has simply become another dimension of Christian consumerism. We have generated a body of people who…

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Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of…

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“The Disciplines of Christ-likeness The third side of our triangle is made up of spiritual disciplines. These are special activities, many engaged…

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A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess…

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“(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual…

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I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians…

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The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people…

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“Gradually there crept into my mind the realization that God sees this all the time. He sees it, experiences it, knows it…

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“It also explains why the gospel of the kingdom has such transforming power in human life. For that gospel opens the kingdom…

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“Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the first chapter of his wonderful book Life Together, has a discussion of how Christians never meet one-on-one; they…

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“A very small percentage of those in the church stand behind a pulpit or sport certain kinds of identifiable clothing. The actual…

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“washing and little food rituals. The battle in the Gospels focuses on those. When Jesus tries to turn it to things that…

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“Accordingly, the kingdom of God is not essentially a social or political reality at all. Indeed, the social and political realm, along…

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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…

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“Dear Father always near us, may your name be treasured and loved, may your rule be completed in us— may your will…

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