The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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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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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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