Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
DALLAS WILLARDThe different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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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.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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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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What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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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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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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 aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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