We don't have to be brilliant. Dallas Willard More Quotes by Dallas Willard More Quotes From Dallas Willard The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off. Dallas Willard saintgraceuse I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word. Dallas Willard last-wordsdisciplinelasts The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best. Dallas Willard prayermindideas God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant. Dallas Willard aimcreationcommunity Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself. Dallas Willard selfspiritualchristian The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life. Dallas Willard prayerfatherthinking What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you die you will be received into heaven, there is no basis for discipleship. Dallas Willard atonementsinheaven Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them. Dallas Willard disciplewantchrist So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence Dallas Willard realprayerjesus The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires. Dallas Willard hardest-thingintimacyhardest The will is transformed by experience, not information. Dallas Willard transformedcoachinginformation What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set. Dallas Willard wishmindthinking We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt. Dallas Willard stupidbelieveideas Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together. Dallas Willard prayertogethertalking You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period. Dallas Willard doctorsadvicejesus The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to possess without, like the "rich young ruler," being possessed (Mark 10:22); how to live simply, even frugally, though controlling great wealth and power. Dallas Willard spiritualchristianschool Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone. Dallas Willard effortgraceattitude We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat. Dallas Willard habitatkingdomsnatural Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character. Dallas Willard creationforcecharacter The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are. Dallas Willard never-forgetkindpeople
