Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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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The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
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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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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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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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Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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