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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Anand Thakur
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
DALLAS WILLARDThe different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
DALLAS WILLARDSuppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARDGrace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARDRelations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARDYour 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDThe sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
DALLAS WILLARDAs Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
DALLAS WILLARDIf we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
DALLAS WILLARDThe 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.
DALLAS WILLARDKeep eternity before the children.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are becoming who we will be-forever.
DALLAS WILLARDWhat 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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