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“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”
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“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.”
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“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”
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“The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.”
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“The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.”
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“The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.”
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“We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.”
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“I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.”
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“My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.”
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“Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.”
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“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.”
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“We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".”
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“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.”
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“As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.”
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“Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.”
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“Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.”
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“The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.”
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“Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?”
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“God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.”
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“Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.”
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“Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.”
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“We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.”
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“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.”
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“Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.”
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“Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.”
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“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.”
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“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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“Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.”
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“You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.”
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“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.”
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