Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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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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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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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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 greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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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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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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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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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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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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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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