To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us. Dallas Willard More Quotes by Dallas Willard More Quotes From Dallas Willard Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another. Dallas Willard love-one-anotherarrangementspeople 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. Dallas Willard lightwaymoving The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. Dallas Willard herospiritualchristian As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength. Dallas Willard source-of-strengthreach-outsource It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it. Dallas Willard hurting-someonehurtreligion God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge. Dallas Willard heartwingsthinking The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life. Dallas Willard welcometransformationstanding Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his. Dallas Willard spiritualideasmoving We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe. Dallas Willard eternaldestinyspiritual The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods. Dallas Willard analysispracticetrying This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it. Dallas Willard this-lifelife-is Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so. Dallas Willard identitystrugglepeople 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. Dallas Willard followersresponsibilitylooks Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so. Dallas Willard wholebeliefifs We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God. Dallas Willard pilgrimageinvitedheart 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. Dallas Willard powerfulintellectualthinking A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why? Dallas Willard graceheartchildren Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. Dallas Willard spite 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. Dallas Willard takenteachingjesus The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about. Dallas Willard readingprayerbelieve
