Dallas Willard - Faith Quotes

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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.

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Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

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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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