Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.
DALLAS WILLARDTo depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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The 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.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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God does not ‘love’ us without liking us.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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