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 WILLARDTheology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
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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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Theology is a part of our lives. It’s unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one.
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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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Grace 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.
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The 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.
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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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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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The 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.
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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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Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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The 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.
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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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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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