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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Anand Thakur
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.
DALLAS WILLARDObedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
DALLAS WILLARDAlmost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
DALLAS WILLARDFeelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
DALLAS WILLARDThere is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
DALLAS WILLARDWe don’t have to be brilliant.
DALLAS WILLARDWhy doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace 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 WILLARDThe union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
DALLAS WILLARDYou can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDDiscipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDUnderstanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDKingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
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