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.
DALLAS WILLARDKingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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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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Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.
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The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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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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The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.
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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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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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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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Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
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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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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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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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Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act. What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.
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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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