Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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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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We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don’t believe. They think that by professing it they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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