Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
DALLAS WILLARDWe live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.
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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
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Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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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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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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