The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
DALLAS WILLARDMy 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.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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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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Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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