Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARDWe 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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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.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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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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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God’s power spills over into other areas of our life.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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