It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
DALLAS WILLARDThe main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that’s why people struggle with them so.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
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As 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.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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