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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 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?”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.”

People Primaries Arrangements Love One Another

Author:Dallas Willard

“In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us that we cannot identify who “has it”, who is “in” with God, who is “blessed”, by looking at exteriors of any sort. That is a matter of the heart. There alone the kingdom of the heavens and human kingdoms great and small are knit together. Draw any cultural or social line you wish, and God will find his way beyond it.”

People Way Needs Humans Heart Matter Helping Stories Together Jesus Heaven Wish Social Lines Teach Draws Blessed Gods Will Kingdoms Exterior Matters Of The Heart Samaritans

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

“Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people, or fulfill your desires will invariably lead you against God's wishes. That is why the first of the Ten Commandments, “You shall have no gods who take priority over me,” is the first of the Ten Commandments.”

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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 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.”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of”

People Play Leader Roles Groups Honor Organization Love And Honor

Author:Dallas Willard

“The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means”

“The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.”

People Thinking Wells Earth Causes Depends Prospering

Book:Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.”

People Helping Prove

Author:Dallas Willard

“Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God works, but it's drift more than anything else. And that's why the churches keep reaching for some programmatic formula that will make people come and give money. It's just really very sad.”

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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 who want help. It's primarily a book for pastors. They're the ones that can use it in a way so that it actually achieves its purpose.”

People Way Want Book Helping Use Purpose Achieve Philosopher Thinker Scholar Pastor Free Thinkers

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“Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.”

People Struggle Identity Relation

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

“We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.”

People Way Should Facts Church Findings Injustice Handle

Author:Dallas Willard

“We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it they're doing something good. Really, they're just deluding themselves.”

People Thinking Believe Kind Stuff Church Don't Believe All Kinds

Author:Dallas Willard

“In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.”

People Courses Social Areas Righteousness

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“Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.”

People Ideas Reality Conflict Aim Instinct Excitement Confused Diversion

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“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”

People God Morning Food Hungry Arise Eggs Toasts

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

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

“Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.”

People Spiritual Certain Religion Practice Draws Relationship With God Spiritual Practice

Book:Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.”

People Earth Jesus Students Program Assumption Laborers

Author:Dallas Willard

“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.”

People Kind Persons Speak Forget Percent Ministers Never Forget Recalls

Author:Dallas Willard

“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.”

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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

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“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”

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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 certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.”

People Earth Certain Jesus Heaven Understanding Views Growing Students Aspect Kingdoms Disciple Learners Apprentice

Book:The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship

Source: The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship

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

People Jesus

Book:The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship

Source: The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship

“A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.”

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Author:Dallas Willard

“One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.”

People World Hurt Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Dallas Willard

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