Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
DALLAS WILLARDWhen we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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When 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.
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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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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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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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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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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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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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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.
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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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Why 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.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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