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“Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Use Happens Belief Theology Passing Passings Passing By

Author:Dallas Willard

“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.”

Ifs Dies Heaven Sin Accepting Theory Bases Determine Forgiven Discipleship Atonement

Author:Dallas Willard

“If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.”

People Ifs Real Together Spiritual Grows Vision Groups Tools Committed Discipleship Assessment

Author:Dallas Willard

“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. It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Greatness Goodness Obvious Thank God Glorify

Author:Dallas Willard

“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.”

Ifs Father Christ Unions This Life

Book:Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn't running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Doe Running Universe Our Lives Pride Please Claims Augustine

Author:Dallas Willard

“My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.”

Ifs Believe Whole Home Order Father Christ Grace One Thing Style Type Activity Claims Following Whole Life Engaged Have Faith Fellowship Arranging

Author:Dallas Willard

“If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.”

Ifs Mind Use Attitude Constant Openness

Author:Dallas Willard

“If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.”

Ifs Mind States Evil Effects Asking Access Bondage Turmoil

Author:Dallas Willard

“In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit cannot-psychologically cannot-sustain itself for any length of time in the face of what it clearly acknowledges to be the case. Therefore it must deny and evade and delude itself.”

Ifs World Faces Life Is Spirit Cases Essentials Deny Denial Acknowledge Length Worlds Apart

Author:Dallas Willard

“Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.”

Ifs Wells Body Christian Spiritual Growth Worry Tiny Well Being Spiritual Growth Fractions

Author:Dallas Willard

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

Ifs Whole Belief

Author:Dallas Willard

“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.”

Ifs Jesus Advice Periods Doctors Mechanic Don't Trust Auto Mechanic

Author:Dallas Willard

“What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many Christians get very anxious, saying that absolutely no one is worthy of being saved. The implication of that is that a person can be almost totally good, but miss the message about Jesus, and be sent to hell. What kind of a God would do that? I am not going to stand in the way of anyone whom God wants to save. I am not going to say 'he can't save them.' I am happy for God to save anyone he wants in any way he can. It is possible for someone who does not know Jesus to be saved.”

“If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.”

Ifs Character Christian Christ Priorities Formation

Author:Dallas Willard

“If we reject the Christian answer, we still have the problem. We're going to adopt some alternative, because the questions will not go away, the questions of, "What kind of person am I becoming?" and "What is my role in that?" and so on.”

Ifs Kind Persons Stills Problem Christian Answers Roles Becoming Alternatives Rejects Going Away

Author:Dallas Willard

“All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with the two issues of identity and empowerment. Who am I? How can I have the power to live? Those are the questions everyone has to deal with. If we don't come to terms with these, we lapse into some form of human decadence and failure.”

Ifs Humans Two Form Spirituality Term Deals Attention Issues Identity Concerned Empowerment Decadence Explicit Lapses Satanism

Author:Dallas Willard

“We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization... that's all we need to do.”

Ifs Needs Mean Form Individual Church Vision Organization Intention

Author:Dallas Willard

“The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if God isn't directing him, he may go wild and do all sorts of things criminal and crazy.”

Ifs May Would Be Crazy Relation Criminals Redemption Drivers Ongoing Sanctification

Author:Dallas Willard

“That's the secret of Jesus. You watch Jesus and you see he never did "withdraw" and then "attack." All of the time people wanted him to do it and in many ways, but he would not. Then to the body of believers he said, "This will show everyone that you are my disciples, if you love one another," but he had already said, "Love one another as I have loved you." So that's the model.”

People Ifs Way Said Shows Body Wanted Jesus Secret Watches Models Believer Disciple Love One Another

Author:Dallas Willard

“If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.”

Ifs Dies Issues Committed Addresses

Author:Dallas Willard

“Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.”

Ifs Thinking Facts Struggle Ease Great Faith

Book:Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.”

Ifs Believe Don't Believe

Author:Dallas Willard

“And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.”

People Ifs Way Want Should Mind Humans Ends Reason Prayer Human Mind

Author:Dallas Willard

“If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.”

Ifs Doe Spiritual Jesus Individual Adventure News Unique Good News Unique Life

Book:Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

Source: Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional

“The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God--a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being--before ordinary people, we have gone wrong”

People Ifs Mind Heart Soul Gone Failing Ordinary Tests Theology Friendly Ordinary People Acid Competent Radiant Lovable

Author:Dallas Willard

“Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.”

Ifs Succeed Projects Transformation Accidents Imposition Personal Transformation

Author:Dallas Willard

“Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.”

Ifs Would Be Jesus Process Becoming Discipleship

Author:Dallas Willard

“It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.”

Ifs Would Be Strange Genuine Counterfeit

Book:Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right," we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.”

Ifs Moments Situation Our Lives Kingdoms Bless

Author:Dallas Willard

“We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Christian Culture Worry Messages Concerned Stakes Participation

Author:Dallas Willard

“If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.”

Ifs Teacher Disciple

Author:Dallas Willard

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