Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can't separate them. Dallas Willard More Quotes by Dallas Willard More Quotes From Dallas Willard Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption. Dallas Willard redemption righteous deeds Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life. Dallas Willard grace Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness Dallas Willard kingdoms two thinking Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke. Dallas Willard yoke way christ In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work. Dallas Willard want littles needs Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love. Dallas Willard circles prayer meaningful Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action. Dallas Willard mind heart moving 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. Dallas Willard sight doe trying We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth" Dallas Willard intelligent dirty jesus Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible. Dallas Willard practice self attitude Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. Dallas Willard values creation play Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's the faculty of choice. And then you want that faculty governed by the truth of God and the Spirit of God. Dallas Willard choices running thinking Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode. Dallas Willard done ideas thinking Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message? Dallas Willard believe people jesus 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. Dallas Willard world needs jesus Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider how we have been approaching our life, in light of the fact that we now, in the presence of Jesus, have the option of living within the surrounding movements of God's eternal purposes, of taking our life into his life. Dallas Willard light hands jesus We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will. Dallas Willard transformed knows When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is. Dallas Willard first-time world firsts 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. Dallas Willard illusion way ideas Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil. Dallas Willard favors evil thinking
