Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARDThe kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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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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Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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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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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
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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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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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Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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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That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
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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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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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