The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
DALLAS WILLARDIt is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
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We don’t have to be brilliant.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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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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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 truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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