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 WILLARDMy 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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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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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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.
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